Judge Quotes

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
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?
At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.
But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.
Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.
I mean those people who are interested in good government will certainly contribute in order to make certain there's some counter-balance to those whose interests in good government is less.
I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.
I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.
Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.
Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
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.
Judges are appointed often through the political process.
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.
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