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

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.

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

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

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

I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.

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