Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

I need to retire from retirement.

And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.

I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.