I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.
From Stephen Breyer
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.
There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
Judges are appointed often through the political process.
And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.
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.
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.
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.
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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