The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.
From Robert Bork
I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing.
It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge.
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.
When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions.
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