On the one hand we want to preserve the integrity of the judicial branch, and we want to talk about judicial independence, and how damaging and dangerous it is when Donald Trump calls out Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel. And at the same time, at the end of the day, judges work for us and we can recall them and we can impeach them.

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

There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA.

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

I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.

What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, and in a case that actually has nothing to do with race he should still be conflicted out.

Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south.