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I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered. Sonia Sotomayor

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I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time. Sonia Sotomayor

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When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not. Sonia Sotomayor

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We conclude that both challenged aspects of EPA's regulations implementing the 2008 ozone standards exceed the agency's authority under the Clean Air Act... Because we find that the EPA's challenged implementation rules exceed the agency's authority under the Clean Air Act, we vacate the pertinent portions of EPA's regulations. Sri Srinivasan

Individuals with significant care needs increasingly receive services in their homes rather than in institutional settings. And correspondingly, residential care increasingly is provided by professionals employed by third-party agencies rather than by workers hired directly by care recipients and their families. Sri Srinivasan

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What a profound privilege to go from one who took the oath from a judge to one who now is in the position to administer the oath as a judge. Sri Srinivasan

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When became citizens, we took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and laws and bear faith and allegiance to the same. When I became a judge last year, I took the very same oath administered by Justice O'Conner. Rather amazingly, I'm now in the position to administer that oath to others who themselves are becoming citizens. Sri Srinivasan

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The Office of the Solicitor General has a deeply ingrained fundamental institutional culture that has stood the test of time for decades. I went because I wanted to do public service and do an appellate practice at the very highest levels I could. Sri Srinivasan

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It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences. Sri Srinivasan

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. Stephen Breyer

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At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. Stephen Breyer

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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. Stephen Breyer

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Judges are appointed often through the political process. Stephen Breyer

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To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. Stephen Breyer

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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. Stephen Breyer

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But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent. Stephen Breyer

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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. Stephen Breyer

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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges. Stephen Breyer

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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? Stephen Breyer

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Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public. Stephen Breyer

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New Jersey has decided that fewer handguns legally carried in public means less crime. It is obvious that the justifiable need requirement functions as a rationing system designed to limit the number of handguns carried in New Jersey. Thomas Hardiman

The threshold question in a Second Amendment challenge is one of scope: whether the Second Amendment protects the person, the weapon, or the activity in the first place. Thomas Hardiman

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Those who drafted and ratified the Second Amendment were undoubtedly aware that the right they were establishing carried a risk of misuse, and States have considerable latitude to regulate the exercise of the right in ways that will minimize that risk. But States may not seek to reduce the danger by curtailing the right itself. Thomas Hardiman

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As a district judge, I view my role quite differently than the role of legislators. Thomas Hardiman

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