I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

If the issue is letting the states experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - 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.