There are loads of countries that have nice written constitutions like ours. But there aren't loads of countries where they're followed.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

We can speak about the institution, but ultimately the bar is the group that both is in touch with the public on the one hand and understands the judicial institution on the other

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what is the justification for saying no gay marriage? Certainly not the one you said, is it?

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts