The liberties in our Constitution have their boundaries defined, in the gray and overlapping areas, by informed judgment.

The court ought to allow the Congress to decide what the factual basis is, and for the court to do otherwise is to engage in judicial legislation.

I appreciate your patience.

It certainly looks, if you read the record, that the court is about ready to upset the Voting Rights case.

But isn't there a danger here that if you don't have this incorporated against the States, that we'd have this result where the citizens of DC have a constitutional right to have a handgun, but the people of Wisconsin might not have that…

But I agree with President Obama that it's a good thing for our country for judges to understand the real-world implications of their decisions and the effects on regular Americans, and to seek to understand both sides of an issue.

I believe we have a right to know what we are getting before we give you a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land.

There are millions of Americans who see for the first time the possibility that someone who looks like them may serve on the United States Supreme Court.

I and others on the Committee are deeply concerned about the very broad assertion of executive power that has been made in recent years

I consider this a significant case that bears upon the flood of special interest money that threatens to undermine public confidence in our justice system.

I think that's not a question of a hypothetical, that's a factual question about what the history of the case law is.

I appreciate that answer, Judge.

we can say that, at least as regards the Supreme Court, it believes mistakes were made with regard to post-9/11 policies?

A jury in West Virginia returned a $50 million verdict for a large coal company, and pending the appeal, the company's CEO spent $3 million to elect an attorney named Brent Benjamin to the state supreme court.

I believe that ruling accurately applied the court's previous precedents and recognized that Congress must have the power to regulate campaign finance to address serious problems of corruption and the appearance of corruption.

Last month, the Supreme Court held that Benjamin's failure to recuse himself was intolerable under our Constitution's guarantee of due process of law.

I hope when you go into these deliberations about cameras in the courtroom, that you consider the possibility that I, and other Americans, would like the opportunity to observe your skills for many years to come in the comfort of our…

Does it strike you as odd that a complex legal analysis of the anti-torture statute, or the FISA Act, that considers whether the President could violate those statutes would not even mention the Youngstown case?