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On the recordMarch 27, 2025
More than ever, we have to get up and explain and repeat and explain again why judicial independence is critical to everyone’s freedom, because arbitrary power is just that, and it means that anyone is going to be subject to unfairness at someone else’s whim.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York

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Stresses the importance of explaining judicial independence for freedom.

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