Quotes

It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.

Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.

Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.

Mississippi's loose campaign finance laws allow lawyers and companies to contribute heavily to the judges they appear before. That is terrible for justice, since the courts are teeming with perfectly legal conflicts of interest.

There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.

Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.

The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.

We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.

The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.

Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.

A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.

Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.

In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free.

Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.

If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.

State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

Our movements reveal a great deal about who we are. A record of our locations over time can reveal whether we go to tent revivals or radical political meetings, abortion clinics or AIDS doctors.