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Stephen Breyer Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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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.
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Well, just that there would be somebody in the office and the voters - it was more or less an understanding in the entire community, as long as that person was doing a good job on the merits, nobody was going to run against him.
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We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other.
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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.
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Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.
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To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
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There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.
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People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.
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Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.
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Judges are appointed often through the political process.
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It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.
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It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
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Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
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Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.
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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.
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I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.
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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.
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Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants.
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But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.
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