We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what ….

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act..

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression..

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech..

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're i….

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous ….

I do not think that we should select judges based on a particular philosophy as opposed to temperament, commitment to judicial neutrality and commitm….

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate….

The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tes….

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles..

Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?.

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon the….

The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you..

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court..