This is not about celebrity justice, this is about the rights of the children.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

The judge also has a truth he wants to hide: He often hasn't been completely candid in describing the facts or the law.

The Second Amendment has no place in modern society.

We have to fulfill what the real meaning of the Second Amendment is: reasonable access to guns for self-protection and for hunting. And there's no room in America for these semiautomatic, automatic and other kinds of weapons that are simply designed to cause mass havoc.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.