“To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.”
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.