Even Merrick Garland can't get up and give a press conference in which he says, "Give me a damn vote." We just hear silence..

Never believe in any faith younger than you are..

In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking….

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by t….

Over the past few years, the Supreme Court was six times more likely to accept cases from an elite group of 66 lawyers than it was from more than 99 ….

Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creat….

I've been thinking so much about how grateful I am to cover the court because the constraints of calm and civility are really palpable when you look ….

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius..

On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years..

I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat wi….

Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither v….

I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall..

Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more aut….

There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes….

I think particularly on the left, progressives wanted more bombast and more..

If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: ….

What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race..

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational..

What's doubly, possibly triply weird about the [Donald] Trump claim is that I said something really hateful and offended an entire class of people, a….

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by de….

The criticism from the other side of [race] debate - and these are not necessarily I think defenders of [Donald] Trump, but they're certainly quick t….