Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.

The laws will not be silent in time of war but they'll speak with a somewhat different voice.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality.