The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

Sonia Sotomayor is uniquely and exquisitely sensitive to race issues because she is a Latina.

What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.

I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

I'm hardly the first person to say that you've [Jeffrey Rosen] written a book about a person who has more to say about the current state of being than almost anyone, Louis Brandeis, and yet nobody is talking about Louis Brandeis.

We don't care what the framers would have thought of violent video games. Times are changing.

Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence.