The Purpose Of The Federalist Society Was

[the Freedom Of Information Act Is] The Taj Mahal Of The Doctrine Of Unanticipated Consequences, The Sistine Chapel Of Cost-benefit Analysis Ignored.

The Virtue Of A Democratic System With A [constitutionally Guaranteed Right To Free Speech] Is That It Readily Enables The People, Over Time, To Be Persuaded That What They Took For Granted Is Not So, And To Change Their Laws Accordingly.

If We're Picking People To Draw Out Of Their Own Conscience And Experience A 'new' Constitution, We Should Not Look Principally For Good Lawyers. We Should Look To People Who Agree With Us. When We Are In That Mode, You Realize We Have Rendered The Constitution Useless.

Many Think It Not Only Inevitable But Entirely Proper That Liberty Give Way To Security In Times Of National Crisis--that, At The Extremes Of Military Exigency, Inter Arma Silent Leges. Whatever The General Merits Of The View That War Silences Law Or Modulates Its Voice, That View Has No Place In The Interpretation And Application Of A Constitution Designed Precisely To Confront War And, In A Manner That Accords With Democratic Principles, To Accommodate It.

The Court Today Completes The Process Of Converting Title Vii Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 From A Guarantee That Race Or Sex Will Not Be The Basis For Often Will.