There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Mentioning God in the Pledge of Allegiance is no different in kind than allowing government salaried Chaplains for the military or for the Congress, or including the official motto, In God We Trust, on our currency.

We must apply a judicial rather than a political standard to the information before us [if choosing a Judge].

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

The only ones who will see an increase in pay are some of the trial lawyers who bring the cases.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.

I'm not naive. Sometimes interpretation is more of an art than a science. There are those who would label interpretation absolutely anything a judge might do or, two, the text of a statute or the Constitution. But it seems to me there comes a point where a judge is using his own creativity and purpose and crosses the line between interpreting a text written by somebody else and in a sense creating something new.