The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it's invalid on its face.

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

For me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.

I think that the Court's task, in this as in all areas of constitutional adjudication, is not responsibly aided by the uncritical invocation of metaphors like the ' wall of separation,' a phrase nowhere to be found in the Constitution.

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures, because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.