When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish….

The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at ….

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty..

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line..

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom..

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last..

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedo….

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge..

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rati….

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification with….

The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizen….

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital ….

The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm,….

The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identific….

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life..

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught..

There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or mor….

The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marri….

The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of fed….

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right….

There are some forty thousand children in California, according to the red brief, that live with same-sex parents, and they want their parents to hav….