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The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.

Sonia Sotomayor
Law, Judging, Tasks
Sonia Sotomayor's Opening Statement on the first day of her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings to be an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, www.npr.org. July 13, 2009.
The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.