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While driving to work, I'll choose to think about a particular subject rather than just have random thought streams landing on one subject or another. For example, I might think about the structure of an opinion. Or I might think about the first sentence of an opinion, refining it.
- Raymond Kethledge
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#First
#Opinion
#Random
#Work
Analytical clarity is the result of hard, syllogistic thinking, and that thinking has to be done alone. It's not just being physically alone but also alone with your thoughts - not looking at your phone, not hearing the buzz of an incoming text message or email.
- Raymond Kethledge
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#Phone
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#Thinking
#Thoughts
Cell-site data - like mailing addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses - are information that facilitate personal communications rather than part of the content of those communications themselves. The government's collection of business records containing these data, therefore, is not a search.
- Raymond Kethledge
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#Government
#Numbers
#Search
I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.
- Raymond Kethledge
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#Mastered
#Subject
#Unless
#Write
The First Amendment protects the Internet.
- Raymond Kethledge
#Amendment
#First Amendment
#Internet
I would make sure that the values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values.
- Raymond Kethledge
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#Just
#Make
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In my view, statutory ambiguities are less like dandelions on an unmowed lawn than they are like manufacturing defects in a modern automobile: they happen, but they are pretty rare, given the number of parts involved.
- Raymond Kethledge
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#Lawn
#Manufacturing
#Rare
#View
Values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values, that I am not striking something down simply because I don't like it. That is a countermajoritarian aspect of our system of government. I would start with the text.
- Raymond Kethledge
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#Government
#I Am
#Start
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The lawyers in the Department of Justice have a long and storied tradition of defending the nation's interests and enforcing its laws - all of them, not just selective ones - in a manner worthy of the department's name.
- Raymond Kethledge
#Justice
#Lawyers
#Long
#Name
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In my own opinions as a judge, I have never yet had occasion to find a statute ambiguous.
- Raymond Kethledge
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#My Own
#Never
#Opinions
#Own
Reading a brief filled with ad hominem attacks is like listening to my kids fight, except that I have to wait until we're in the courtroom to tell the attacking lawyer what I think about it.
- Raymond Kethledge
#Fight
#Lawyer
#Listening
#Reading
#Wait
A lawyer who makes an impression as credible, competent, and civil is one whose thoughts I'll take seriously.
- Raymond Kethledge
#Impression
#Lawyer
#Seriously
#Thoughts
I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.
- Raymond Kethledge
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#Lot
#Person
#Solitude
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