My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.