Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.
This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.
Our role as judges is to interpret the law.
Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.
I believe the Constitution matters: that it's not just a few pieces of paper.
I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.
We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.
As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.