Top 6 Richard A. Posner Quotes

#1. Capitalism is not a synonym for free markets.

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#2. Marcuse also believed that sexuality was a political., an ideological, category, not found but made.

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#3. I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11)

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#4. The outstanding examples are still Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process18

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#5. But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect. The original precedent in a line of precedents could not have been based on precedent.

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#6. One understands why law clerks follow the Bluebook. But why a judge would direct his law clerks to do so, or even tolerate their doing so, is a mystery to me. Are judges sheep? Why should they care what kids at the Harvard Law Review consider proper abbreviation?

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