The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

My dissenting opinions, like my briefs, are intended to persuade. And sometimes one must be forceful about saying how wrong the Court's decision is.

I think our system is being polluted by money.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

The Second Amendment is outdated in the sense that its function has become obsolete.

Historically, the new government had no money to pay for an army, so they relied on the state militias. And the states required men to have certain weapons and they specified in the law what weapons these people had to keep in their home so that when they were called to do service as militiamen, they would have them. That was the entire purpose of the Second Amendment.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.