A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married?

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister.

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.