Everybody, I think, who hopes to become a judge would aspire to be able to write as well as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. None are going to be able to attain that. But I’ll try at least — if confirmed to be as brief and pithy as he is.

— Merrick Garland Confirmation hearing on nomination to United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1995)

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