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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.
Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I knew and that was what I... →
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were... →
Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to... →
And I went off to Stanford, I was pretty young and pretty naive. And I had a professor I really loved, who was himself a lawyer.
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful... →
The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the... →
If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some... →