Stephen Breyer: “I know that my role as a judge is a limited one, but the Constitution empowers me only to decide cases and controversies…”

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

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.

And we`re now engaged in a great civil war to determine whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

It may be a political process that leads to the nomination of a judge. And a president may think, ah, I have got someone who will always agree with me. That's what Teddy Roosevelt thought when he appointed Oliver Wendell Holmes. He got him…