“We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.
You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.
