I have had to make a decision I may not agree with, but I am required to follow the letter of the law. It is not my job to think what is best... My responsibility is to decide what the law says and to decide to the law.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My job is to follow the law, not to make up the law that has been promulgated by the people or the people's representatives.
My approach to deciding cases is I look at the law, I look at the facts, and I do my best to apply the law to the facts and make a decision based on the law and the facts.
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.
I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it.
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.
We have a society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only.