Sotomayor denies ruling in favor of a litigant based on sympathy.
05/07/2009
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It improves both the public's confidence that there are judges from a variety of different backgrounds on the bench.
We cannot remedy the ills of society in a courtroom. We can only apply the law to the facts before us.
I think what Justice Roberts was saying is the Court needs to think about its processes to ensure that it's fulfilling its----
The doctrine of stare decisis is a doctrine that looks to the value in the stability, consistency, predictability of precedent.