[These may indicate an inability to] think lucidly and deeply about legal questions and express her thoughts in clear, pointed, understandable prose, ... A justice without those capabilities -- however generally intelligent, decent and hardworking -- risks being a calamity for the court, the law, and the country. -Charles Fried

 

[These may indicate an inability to] think lucidly and deeply about legal questions and express her thoughts in clear, pointed, understandable prose, ... A justice without those capabilities -- however generally intelligent, decent and hardworking -- risks being a calamity for the court, the law, and the country.


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[These may indicate an inability to] think lucidly and deeply about legal questions and express her thoughts in clear, pointed, understandable prose, ... A justice without those capabilities -- however generally intelligent, decent and hardworking -- risks being a calamity for the court, the law, and the country.

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It's a big tree, but it has ramified and exfoliated, ... would be an enormous disruption.

Charles Fried

My impression of him, and the impressions of everyone in the office, was he is a very fine lawyer, a very hard worker, a beautiful writer and absolutely, meticulously objective.

Charles Fried

He's obviously a conservative man but in disposition, not in some kind of ideological way.

Charles Fried

It is really a euphemism for asking the man, 'how are you going to decide particular cases that I care about? It is a kind of smoke screen for asking that question.

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