Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but ‘[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.' To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.