Approving some religious claims while deeming others unworthy of accommodation could be 'perceived as favoring one religion over another,' the very 'risk the [Constitution's] Establishment Clause was designed to preclude.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

One might plausibly contend that Congress violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers when it exonerates itself from the impositions of the laws it obligates people outside the legislature to obey.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

You're saying, no, state said two kinds of marriage; the full marriage, and then this sort of skim-milk marriage.