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Orange Jacobs: “Where different judges differ, it isn't in the science of the law, it is in the art connected with that science.”

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Where different judges differ, it isn't in the science of the law, it is in the art connected with that science.
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Orange Jacobs
Republican · Washington

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Jacobs notes that differences among judges arise from the art of law rather than its science.

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