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.

A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say.

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

I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are really palpable when you look across the street, and that, you know, I feel like the discourse has become so overheated that, you know, we talk about everything in the exact tone that seems to sort of preclude reason and to preclude the possibility of agreement.

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

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

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