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Judges Are The Weakest Link In Our System Of Justice And They Are Also The Most Protected.

Look, I Don't Know Whether God Exists. I Don't Know That. And I Tell You One Thing, I Am Not Frightened Of My Beliefs. If There Is A God Who Is Threatening Me With Damnation Because I Don't Believe In Him, So Be It. I've Lived My Life In Conscience, And I Will Suffer Damnation Willingly In Conscience Against A Tyrannical God Who Would Damn Me Because, On The Basis Of The Intelligence He Gave Me, I Have Come To A Conclusion Doubting His Existence, And I Will Continue To Be A Skeptic All Of My Life.

But The United States Is Neither A Christian Nation Nor The Exclusive Home Of Any Particular Religious Group. Non-christians Are Not Guests. We Are As Much Hosts As Any Mayflower-descendant Protestant. It Is Our Home As Well As Theirs. And In A Home With So Many Owners, There Can Be No Official Sectarian Prayer. That Is What The First Amendment Is All About, And The First Act By The New Administration Was In Defiance Of Our Constitution.

I Came From A Poor Family, So Working And Going To School At The Same Time Was Natural. It Taught Me Multi-tasking, Although We Didn't Call It That Back Then. I Learned I Could Never Be Idle, I Need To Be Doing Many Things At Once.

If Torture Is Going To Be Administered As A Last Resort In The Ticking-bomb Case, To Save Enormous Numbers Of Lives, It Ought To Be Done Openly, With Accountability, With Approval By The President Of The United States Or By A Supreme Court Justice.