Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.

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.

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

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them.

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

On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.

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.