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.

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

I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

For the most part, much of the legal world's attention has been focused on Donald Trump and his attacks on Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge who is currently presiding over the Trump University fraud cases in California. Trump somehow managed to offend surprising numbers of establishment Republicans.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

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.