Stephen Breyer: “And we`re now engaged in a great civil war to determine whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated…”

I can only do this for so much longer. The Democrats will lose control of the Senate, in the next election. And if that happens, the next opening will not be for two years. So, I have to do it now.

that the conservatives were living in a dream world, that the idea that preserving diversity in 2007 is the same thing as Jim Crow in 1954 is a cruel hoax.

In other words, it would likely lessen, rather than enhance, competition and consumer welfare.

to invalidate the plans under review is to threaten the promise of Brown. The plurality position, I fear, would break that promise. This is a decision that the Court and nation will come to regret.