Precisely because judicial power is unfettered, judicial responsibility should be discharged with finer conscience and humility than that of any other agency of Government. " The ampler the power, the greater the care with which it should be exercised. And the very circumstance that absolute privilege attaches to judicial pronouncements imposes a correspondingly high obligation on a judge to be guarded and restrained in his comments, and to refrain from needless invective.

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