This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

You know, kids text a lot today. It's phenomenal.

Without question, the court does play a vital role in our constitutional system.

Sometimes local, state and federal laws so clearly run afoul of the Constitution that the court must step in and strike them down. In most cases, the court performs this admirably and with great restraint.

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.