Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.

For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. Thats set out in the Constitution.

We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

The fact is that knowledge about the Constitution and the Court is not something that is handed down through the gene pool; every generation has to learn it. And I'm not sure the recent generations have done that good a job of learning about it.

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