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" And in that confirmation process, I sat for 17 hours in front of a senate judiciary committee. "
Senate
Judiciary
Committee
" 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? "
Problem
Business
You
" At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. "
Politics
Political
Point
" But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. "
Independent
Once
Point
" Every citizen has to figure out what kind of government he or she wants. "
Kind
Citizen
Out
" 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. "
People
Good
Government
" Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want. "
Mean
You
Independence
" Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts. "
Independence
Facts
Decide
" It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. "
Prison
People
Fight
" I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it. "
Doing
You
Think
" 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. "
Thought
Beyond
Control
" It's important to every American that the law protect his or her basic liberty. "
Law
Liberty
American
" Judges are appointed often through the political process. "
Political
Through
Process
" Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment. "
Political
Moment
Wants
" People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost. "
Lose
Respect
Educated
" There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed. "
Where
Countries
Like
" To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. "
Fair
Justice
Protection
" Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public. "
Question
Campaign
Public
" We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. "
Up
System
Judges
" 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. "
Group
Bar
Touch
" 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. "
Job
Understanding
Run
" You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. "
Moment
You
She
" 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. "
Newspaper
People
Trials
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