What the court has decided now is that 'we are the sole and exclusive arbiter of what needs to be disclosed.' That rule seems somewhat extreme.

I'm a big fan of good grades. But I am going to suggest to you that you will find that the skills of a student are of somewhat less use to you once you get out into what is sometimes referred to as 'the real world.'

Rodney King is a progenitor of all these cell phone videos that we have. It was unusual that a person had a video camera to take a picture of the Rodney King beating. Now, of course, everybody has a phone, and that has been one of the key factors in all the new attention to the issue.

There's a contradiction between the two, and as always, the Supreme Court wins, and that bodes ill for the California case.

I don't think even conservatives believe the court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Beyond diversity, the story of Obama's influence on the courts is more complex. Indeed, it could serve as a metaphor for his Presidency: symbolically rich but substantively hazy. Obama took office after years of intense conservative focus on the courts.