Occupation: Former United States Solicitor General Birth: September 11, 1940
Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara man….
The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my offi….
I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wa….
She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - fo….
I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is an important thing; ….
The Supreme Court has said that: Marriage is the most important relation in life. Now that's being withheld from the plaintiffs. It is the foundation….
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional..
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitut….
No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married..
Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do?.
My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devast….
It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information..
I wanted it not to be true. I wanted it not to be her plane. I wanted it - I wanted, if it was her plane, to have somehow survived because she was in….
These individuals are tyrants, and so they hate democracy. They are bigots, zealots, and persecutors, and so they hate Americas freedom tolerance, an….
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can….
The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world..
It happens every once in awhile at the federal level when the solicitor general, on behalf of the U.S., will confess error or decline to defend a law….