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.

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.

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

The criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but they're certainly quick to say, you know, if you're going to live by the race card, you die by the race card.

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

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

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.