There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

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

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?

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

You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment

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?

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