
Judges can receive gifts as long as they report them.

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.

I grew up, like most people in my generation, watching John Travolta. I was thrilled to meet him.

He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going.

He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.

sheepish, clarification. "Now, that plastic," Clark said. "Do you happen to

There is always sleaze in the news. And you know what? The news is always a combination of things that are interesting and things that are important.

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

on the government

It's always interesting to see what judges do when their legal philosophy conflicts with their political views.

Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

this is a girl who did drugs, who fucked her high school teacher, who chose Berkeley over Stanford. Maybe she really could be one of us.

There were times when David Souter thought of Bush v. Gore and wept,

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

The role of the defense is to be an advocate for their client, regardless of whether he did it or not, within the bounds of the law.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

We have never had a president of the United States or a nominee of a major party who was a Supreme Court law clerk.