Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never matched very effectively the percentages of law graduates out of graduating classes. We have far more than we ever did before and it's continued to grow, but it isn't a nice match yet.

Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.

[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own.