In recent years, even as the court has become an increasingly political body, the Senate is not focused on preserving any perceived ideological balance when Democrat presidents have appointed people to the court.

The Supreme Court has also issued and never reversed a number of decisions that are repugnant to the Constitution's vision of human dignity and equality.

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

Among the most famous of these Supreme Court cases of exercise of political power I believe are the cases of Roe V. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which created a constitutional right to abortion.

We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.

I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.