Russ Feingold

I appreciate that answer, Judge.

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.

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 have long believed that the Second Amendment grants citizens an individual right to own firearms.

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

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 swell with pride when I contemplate the possibility that my high school classmate may ascend to the highest court in the land.

Her qualifications for the Supreme Court would ordinarily be a no-brainer but for the politics of judicial nomination.

It is my belief that the Constitution and Bill of Rights were created to be living documents that stand together as the foundation for the rule of law in our nation.

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

Are there any elements of the government's response to September 11th that you think, maybe 50 or 60 years from now, we as a nation will look back on with some regret?

Time after time in cases arising out of actions taken by the Administration after September 11, the court has said: 'No. You have gone too far.'

The courage to stand up to the President and Congress in order to protect the constitutional rights of the American people and preserve the rule of law.

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…

It said 'no' to the Administration's view that it could hold a citizen in the United States incommunicado indefinitely with no access to a lawyer.

But what would be the general test for incorporation?

When the Supreme Court declares that the Constitution evolves--and it declares further that foreign law may affect its evolution--it is declaring nothing less than the power of foreign governments to change the meaning of the United States…

It is a great honor for Judge Sotomayor that President Obama has nominated her to the United States Supreme Court.

I do want to express my very deep concern about where the Supreme Court may be heading.

The Supreme Court denied an opportunity for those families who had suffered grievously from having their day in court.

So after Heller, doesn't it seem almost inevitable that when the Supreme Court again considers whether the Second Amendment applies to the states, it will find the individual right to bear arms to be fundamental?

It said no to the Administration and to Congress when they tried to strip the constitutional right to habeus corpus from prisoners held at Guantanamo.

The nine justices of the United States Supreme Court have the tremendous responsibility of safeguarding the framers' intent and the guiding values of our Constitution.

These were courageous decisions, and in my opinion, they were correct decisions.

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.