The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.
Judges should interpret the law, not make it.
No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
A judge's role is to ensure that the legislature remains within the limits of its assigned authority under the Constitution. Judges have no authority to second-guess the wisdom of the value judgments and policy choices the legislature has made.
The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.