Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

There is no doubt where the founding fathers stood on this issue. They believed that people of faith should be permitted to express themselves in public. They believed that this country was big enough and free enough to allow expression of on enormous variety of views and beliefs.

But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally

Depictions or expressions of sex, violence, crime are all permitted virtually without limit; but religion, it seems, never.No wonder many in America seem to believe that the court has become one more inclined to protect pornography than to protect religious expression.

A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.