The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So, we want to be ver….

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the ….

This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it..

The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far bet….

My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of g….

Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rig….

[Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?.

For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of the….

Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies..

I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and….

Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likel….

Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is..

I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign, are sort of like goin….

My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible idea. I don't think ….

In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar o….

It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why the Constitution wisely….

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ou….

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the ri….

When the president, Donald Trump, is a litigant I think it's wise for him not to comment on the judges. It's not going to help anything - and all it'….

If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it..

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded..