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

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

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

I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position, for which I have been excoriated by 'liberal' colleagues, but I think Plessy v. Ferguson was right and should be re-affirmed.

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.

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.