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

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

I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.

For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

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

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

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