You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.