Judges are appointed often through the political process

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

I think whether you are a judge on my court or whether you are a judge on a court of appeals or any court, and lawyers too - and if you're interested in law yourself, you'll be in the same situation - you have a text that isn't clear. If the text is clear, you follow the text. If the text isn't clear, you have to work out what it means. And that requires context.

It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty

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

Judges are appointed often through the political process

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.