Sonia SotomayorThinkers

The Constitution of the US is a 'process' in that it is a document that changes by an amendment process set forth in the document itself.

The Constitution of the US is a living document only in that it is timeless by the expression of what it says while society and the facts a judge may get presented are in flux.

A Judge is tasked to apply the law to the facts before that judge, not to determine it. As such it is not the heart that compels conclusions in cases.

Justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

Law's uncertainty is not an unfortunate accident: It is of immense social value.

Same-sex marriage is indeed a civil liberty, as the right to marriage is embedded in our constitutional law (in the 1967 loving v. Virginia case on interracial marriage).

Uncertainty is, in the law, not an unfortunate accident: It is of immense social value.