A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

Why can’t the state accede to the public’s wishes?

And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that’s very important for the American public to know.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace. called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you’d like it to mean?

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution’s protection of privacy.

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations… until they were all litigated out.

And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there’s a lot of value in the public being able to...

Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious.

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting...

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

There seems to be no way to quench people’s thirst for online video programming.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know.

The layman’s constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn’t like is unconstitutional.

I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and there’s a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But...

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right...

I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the...

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

If you have a camera in the courtroom, there’s no filtering. What you see is what’s there.

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin’ brown and golden under a sinkin’ sun.

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

I figured I would go into labor relations. I began to develop a labor law practice. Eventually, I focused on one primary client.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.

If we’re picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a ‘new’ Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we...

I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I’d help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good...

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There’s a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there’s nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

I never saw the play, although I heard it was good.

Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and...

The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who’s telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of...

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Hang ’em first, try ’em later.

Abortion is off the democratic stage. Prohibiting it is unconstitutional, now and forever, coast to coast, until I guess we amend the Constitution.