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Article: JUSTICE SANDERS DEFENDS SPEECH AT RALLY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 19, 1997
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State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders insisted yesterday that his 58-second speech to an anti-abortion rally on the state Capitol steps last year was innocent, non-political and didn't violate judicial ethics.
``I have personal opinions about every issue,'' he told the state Commission on Judicial Conduct. But he added: ``I am not a judge because of my personal preferences. I am a judge because of my willingness to apply the rule of law to a particular set of circumstances.''
Sanders said that because abortion is lawful nationally and is an especially well-settled legal issue in Washington, ``I could not then and I cannot conceive of an abortion ...