The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

Justice O'Connor was the fifth vote to uphold the time-honored principle, which bears repeating, of separation of church and state. There was real wisdom in the decision of our forefathers in writing a Constitution that gave us an opportunity to grow as such a diverse nation, and we should never forget it.

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.

I hope that Republicans in the House and Mr. Cantor will embrace that as part of immigration reform.