Stephen Breyer: “If the public sees Judges as politicians in robes, its confidence in the courts and in the rule of law itself can only…”

What's in the judge's mind doesn't really matter? What matters are the words on the paper.

You better be there for everybody. Not just the Democrats, not just the Republicans.

It may be a political process that leads to the nomination of a judge. And a president may think, ah, I have got someone who will always agree with me. That's what Teddy Roosevelt thought when he appointed Oliver Wendell Holmes. He got him…

What is law supposed to do, seen as a whole? It is supposed to allow all people--all people--to live together in a society, where they have so many different views, so many different needs, to live together in a way that is more…