The Most Important Quality For A Judge

Our Country As A Whole, No Less Than The Hastings College Of Law, Values Tolerance, Cooperation, Learning, And The Amicable Resolution Of Conflicts. But We Seek To Achieve Those Goals Through "[a] Confident Pluralism That Conduces To Civil Peace And Advances Democratic Consensus-building," Not By Abridging First Amendment Rights.

When I Had My Confirmation Hearing For The Court Of Appeals, [my Son] Philip Was 3 Years Old. And When I Was Called Up To The Chair He Took It Upon Himself To Run Up And Sit Next To Me In Case Any Hard Questions Came Up.

In An Era Where The White House Is Abusing Power, Is Excusing And Authorizing Torture And Is Spying On American Citizens, I Find Judge [samuel] Alito's Support For An All-powerful Executive Branch To Be Genuinely Troubling.

The Most Important Quality For A Judge Is Open- Mindedness To The Arguments.

Part Of Me Wanted To Get A Graduate Degree In Political Science. Had I Done That, I Suppose I Would Have Become A College Professor.