Stephen Breyer: “I commit to you that I will work productively to support and defend the Constitution and this grand experiment of…”

Without the public's trust, the Court would no longer be able to act as a check on the other branches of Government and a guarantee--guarantor of the rule of law, threatening the foundations of our constitutional system.

I don`t intend to die on the court. I don`t think I`ll be there forever.

I thought Roe should not be overturned. I thought Casey should not be overturned.

Nor can one guarantee that firms will undertake the investment necessary to produce complex technological innovations knowing that any competitive advantage derived from those innovations will be dissipated by the sharing requirement.