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The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be.

The Court's primary duty, in short, is not to minimize its role or avoid friction with the political branches, but to try as best it can to get the Constitution right.

The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.

Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

I have always thought that term limits for Justices sound good until you really give the issue some thought.

If the court is a political institution making important political decisions, then the public should debate the politics of Supreme Court decisions.

But the Supreme Court does not make sweeping changes in constitutional law by accident, or by its own design. Rather, the Court is limited to deciding the cases that the parties ask the Court to decide.

I think there needs to be a range of justices, of all types. You can't just pick one type.