Sonia Sotomayor: “Certainly there are some very specific words in the Constitution that have to be given direct application.”

If we're unsure of your characterization, because there's certainly a number of amici brief who disagree with that characterization, shouldn't we be certifying this question to the Colorado court instead of us deciding it? We have to be…

Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980 because it did not want this country to repeat the mistakes of its past.

Today, the Court discards that democratic regime in favor of one that distorts the structure of Government to fit the majority’s theory of unitary, total executive control.

From the moment he was released from custody after serving his first term of imprisonment, Herrera-Salazar was presented with a Hobson's choice,