When Judges Don’t Know Everything - NYTimes.com:
Judge Richard Posner, on judging:
“By self-awareness and discipline, a judge can learn not to allow his sympathies or antipathies to influence his judicial votes – unduly. But the qualification in ‘unduly’ needs to be emphasized. Many judges would say that nothing ‘outside the law,’ in the narrow sense that confines the word to the texts of formal legal documents, influences their judicial votes at all. Some of them are speaking for public consumption, and know better. Those who are speaking sincerely are fooling themselves.”
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