I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more.

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

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

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.

Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.

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