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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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.
Stephen Breyer
At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.
Stephen Breyer
Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.
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