Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

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

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

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

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?

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.