For me, one of the most important issues that needs to be addressed by Judge Roberts is the constitutional right to privacy. … It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone...

They want more latitude to set up roadblocks, things like that, to prevent terrorism and other violent crimes. And it’s unclear how the Supreme Court will respond to that kind of argument.

Government in our democracy, state and national, must be neutral in matters of religious theory, doctrine, and practice. It may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may...

[In the midst of an undeclared war on terrorism, the courts could ultimately establish new legal precedent.] There are issues we have never dealt with before, … And some of it has to be made...

I am concerned about the Supreme Court’s judicial activism which has usurped congressional authority,

As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A president freely chosen from a wide-open field of two men every...

We have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court and we hope that when we appeal, the Supreme Court will temporarily stay the sentence until the appeal is heard,

Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course,...

That solves about 95 percent of the cases but the cases that get to the Supreme Court are the five percent that aren’t easily answered and that’s where you fall back on judgment and perspective.

The Supreme Court is composed of two groups known as the Infallible Five and the Furious Four. The first group writes those majority decisions on patent law that have brought patent lawyers to their present...

You cannot stand for civil rights + not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights + not support gay marriage. It’s that simple.Everywhere, the voice of the oppressed must echo + ring out...

Painters–and storytellers, including poets and playwrights and historians, they are the justices of the Supreme Court of Good and Evil, of which I am now a member, and to which you may belong someday!

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use,...

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view.

While significant strides have been made in the pursuit of life expectancy, healthcare, educational opportunities, and constitutional protections for women, the Supreme Court, in particular, still wrestles with their status, as evidenced by their problems...

The President and the Congress are all very well in their way. They can say what they think they think, but it rests with the Supreme Court to decide what they have really thought.

If logic and reason, the hard, cold products of the mind, can be relied upon to deliver justice or produce the truth, how is it that these brain-heavy judges rarely agree? Five-to-four decisions are the...

A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money...

… those selling abortion don’t want them to have [the facts],” Virginia said heatedly. “Besides the Supreme Court doesn’t agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we...

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,’ he [FDR] later told an adviser, ‘and came to the words “support the Constitution of the United States” I felt like saying: “Yes, but it’s the Constitution...