If the legislature would punish, it must enlist... the other branches—the executive to prosecute, the judicial to try and convict. - Laurence Tribe

Given its remarkable activism in constraining the President vis-à-vis Congress and the courts and in limiting Congress vis-à-vis the States, the current Supreme Court cannot be understood as pursuing a modest institutional role. ...I prefer postulates honestly expressed to analyses whose underlying assumptions are obscured by the jargon of neutral principles and the language of "objective" legal description.

Judicial neutrality necessarily involves taking sides. ...[J]udicial restraint is but another form of judicial activism.

This book is about a clash of absolutes, life against liberty.
No right is more basic than the right to live. ...If infanticide is wrong, is the destruction of a fetus at eight months of , or at five, any different?