"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause..." Theodore Roosevelt
Judicial independence is an oxymoron of dubious value. What is a judge independent of? Politics? The People? Fine, that independence is all well and good as long as the judge is dependent on the text of the constitution and the law. And our judicial system hasn’t bothered with the actual written law for a very long time.
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