There Is A Constitutional Right

I Have Yet To See A Death Case Among The Dozen Coming To The Supreme Court On Eve-of-execution Stay Applications In Which The Defendant Was Well Represented At Trial... People Who Are Well Represented At Trial Do Not Get The Death Penalty.

Dissents Speak To A Future Age. It's Not Simply To Say, 'my Colleagues Are Wrong And I Would Do It This Way.' But The Greatest Dissents Do Become Court Opinions And Gradually Over Time Their Views Become The Dominant View. So That's The Dissenter's Hope: That They Are Writing Not For Today But For Tomorrow.

We Live In An Age In Which The Fundamental Principles To Which We Subscribe - Liberty, Equality And Justice For All - Are Encountering Extraordinary Challenges, ... But It Is Also An Age In Which We Can Join Hands With Others Who Hold To Those Principles And Face Similar Challenges.

...the Court ...[recognizes]...the Persistence Of Racial Inequality And A Majority's Acknowledgement Of Congress's Authority To Act Affirmatively, Not Only To End Discrimination, But Also To Counteract Discrimination's Lingering Effects. Those Effects, Reflective Of A System Of Racial Caste [legal Segregation And Discrimination] Only Recently Ended, Are Evident In Our Work Places, Markets, And Neighborhoods. Job Applicants With Identical Resumes, Qualifications, And Interview Styles Still Experience Different Receptions, Depending On Their Race.

Our Goal In The '70s Was To End The Closed Door Era. There Were So Many Things That Were Off Limits To Women, Policing, Firefighting, Mining, Piloting Planes. And The Stereotypical View Of People Of A World Divided Between Home And Child Caring Women And Men As Breadwinners, Men Representing The Family Outside The Home.