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- Chief Justice Roberts sided with the four liberal justices to uphold the Florida rule. “Judges are not politicians, even when they come to the bench by way of the ballot,” he wrote. And because they have “no influence over either the sword or the purse,” he wrote, quoting Alexander Hamilton, their authority depends on the public’s confidence in their integrity and impartiality. (Of course, the public’s faith in the integrity of other elected officials and lawmakers should matter just as much, which the Roberts court has essentially ignored.)