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

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

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

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

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.

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

Judges are appointed often through the political process