These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.

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