In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Even though Article IV of the Constitution says that treaties are the 'supreme law of the land,' in most instances they're not even law.

I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time.

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.