Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.
Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
I don't comment directly on actions or statements of candidates.
I think any good judge recognizes his or her place in our constitutional government, and that place is not to upset the will of the people as expressed through their elected representatives.
But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.
Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.
The solution to voters potentially being misled by a judicial candidate's political speech is more speech - not government censorship.
Judges should interpret the law, not make it.
A president shouldn't tell the judiciary what to do.
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
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