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

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

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

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

We dedicated ourselves to a powerful idea - organic law rather than naked power. There seems to be universal acceptance of that idea in the nation.

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