I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it?

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

Judges are appointed often through the political process

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts