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It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty.

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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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Judges are appointed often through the political process.

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And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee.

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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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But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

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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.

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And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

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I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: August 15th, 1938

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