Occupation: Former United States Solicitor General Birth: March 1, 1927 Death: December 19, 2012
As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any won….
Conservatives . . . may decide to join the game and seek activist judges with conservative views. Should that come to pass, those who have tempted th….
If conservatives come to control the White House and both Houses of Congress, there will be very little change in Hollywood, the network evening news….
The National Rifle Association is always arguing that the Second Amendment determines the right to bear arms. But I think it really is the people's r….
As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would ….
[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle ar….
Radical feminism is the most destructive and fanatical movement to come down to us from the Sixties. This is a revolutionary, not a reformist, moveme….
One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods..
Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law..
The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and i….
I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to thi….
There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by ….
One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young woman….
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel..
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of….
Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life..
The American press is extraordinarily free and vigorous, as it should be. It should be, not because it is free of inaccuracy, oversimplification and ….
Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason..
There can be no doubt that the systematic hostility of the courts to religion has lowered the prestige of religion in the public mind..
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge..
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful,….