I make them square their corners, Senator Hatch, all right?

The courts are a very important place for the vindication of civil rights and for minorities.

When I became a judge, they gave me a gavel, not a rubber stamp, and nobody comes to my court expecting a rubber stamp.

Well, no, Senator, I am happy to say Shelby is a precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Brown v. Board of Education, Senator, was a correct application of the law of precedent.

If it has not done so, with respect, that is not my fault.

There is a need to remind people how to talk to one another, how we talk to one another.

Senator, my personal views have nothing to do with my job as a judge.

Oh, of course. It is an extraordinary thing.

I come here with no agenda but one, no promises but one: to be as good and faithful a judge as I know how to be.

A good judge starts with precedent and does not reinvent the wheel.

you would have to have a State that would pass a law like that.