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

The remedy for this disagreement is not changing judges but changing the law.

Any person can file a lawsuit about anything against anyone at any time.

It might be fair to ask whether the TransAm decision was a wise or kind one, but it is not our job to answer questions like that.

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.

I believe in trial lawyers, for example, getting to try their cases, and appellate lawyers getting to argue their arguments.

No, Senator. And if they had, I would have walked out of the room, period.

We also have the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that... imposes an even higher standard on the Government than the First Amendment.

My decisions have always been independent, regardless of who I am agreeing or disagreeing with.

I do not believe that is part of the judicial function, and I do not believe that is what good judges do.

Senator, if that is where the law and the facts lead me, do it without hesitation.

Oh, of course. It is an extraordinary thing.