What is the impact of a judge's own perspective on the judicial process?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Matter of Scher, 12 BR 258 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 1981):

However seriously judges take their roles in the judicial process, they bring only themselves to the task. Who we are, what we are, where we are and where we came from can rarely be divorced from the judicial task. In short, we see only through our own eyes. So

United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 U.S. 56, 69, 70 S.Ct. 430, 436, 94 L.Ed. 653 (1950), Frankfurter, J., dissenting.

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