“The character of the Judges is public property, and if they have done anything amiss, they ought to be censured. But if not, their characters ought to be respected; otherwise the most mischievous consequences will arise to the public.”

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Holt's Case (1793), 22 How. St. Tr. 1234.

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