Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.

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

There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.

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.

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