Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability. |
Somewhere out there, beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door. |
The American judicial system is admired throughout the world. |
The Constitution does not guarantee the right to acquire information at a public library without any risk of embarrassment. |
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality. |
the fairest, most efficient boss I have ever had. |
The framers of our Constitution came up with two major contributions to the art of government. The first was the idea of an executive not dependent on the political support of the legislature. The second was the idea of the judiciary independent of the executive and legislative branches. |
The Supreme Court is an institution far more dominated by centrifugal forces, pushing toward individuality and independence, than it is by centripetal forces pulling for hierarchical ordering and institutional unity. |
To reach its result, the court necessarily has had to find within the scope of the 14th Amendment a right that was apparently completely unknown to the drafters of the amendment, |
to say that it is easily applied is just a myth. |
To the extent that libraries wish to offer unfiltered access, they are free to do so without federal assistance. |
We decline to overrule Miranda ourselves, |
We start with first principles. The Constitution created a federal government [whose] powers are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite, |
We strike down the floating buffer zones around people entering and leaving the clinics because they burden more speech than is necessary to serve the relevant government interests, |
When you are young and impecunious, society conditions you to exchange time for money, and this is quite as it should be. Very few people are hurt by having to work for a living. But as you become more affluent, it somehow is very, very difficult to reverse that process and begin trading money for time. |