There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world weve long known and the world that will become.

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.