No judicial nomination should answer any question that is designed to reveal how the nominee will rule on any issue that could come before the court.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

That claim was not intended to be a factual statement.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Everybody goes to clinics, to hospitals, to doctors, and so on. Some people go to Planned Parenthood. But you don't have to go to Planned Parenthood to get your cholesterol or your blood pressure checked. If you want an abortion, you go to Planned Parenthood, and that's well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does.

Politicians must let voters know what they think about issues before the election. Judges should not.