The Wise Do Not Investigate Such Silliness.

Individuals Who Have Been Wronged By Unlawful Racial Discrimination Should Be Made Whole; But Under Our Constitution There Can Be No Such Thing As Either A Creditor Or A Debtor Race. That Concept Is Alien To The Constitution's Focus Upon The Individual. ...to Pursue The Concept Of Racial Entitlement - Even For The Most Admirable And Benign Of Purposes - Is To Reinforce And Preserve For Future Mischief The Way Of Thinking That Produced Race Slavery, Race Privilege And Race Hatred. In The Eyes Of Government, We Are Just One Race Here. It Is American.

We Do Him [god] Honor In Our Pledge Of Allegiance, In All Our Public Ceremonies. There's Nothing Wrong With That. It Is In The Best Of American Traditions, And Don't Let Anybody Tell You Otherwise. I Think We Have To Fight That Tendency Of The Secularists To Impose It On All Of Us Through The Constitution.

The Wise Do Not Investigate Such Silliness.

There Is No Basis In Text, Tradition, Or Even In Contemporary Practice (if That Were Enough), For Finding In The Constitution A Right To Demand Judicial Consideration Of Newly Discovered Evidence Of Innocence Brought Forward After Conviction. My Concern Is That In Making Life Easier For Ourselves We Not Appear To Make It Harder For The Lower Federal Courts, Imposing Upon Them The Burden Of Regularly Analyzing Newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence Claims In Capital Cases (in Which Event Such Federal Claims, It Can Confidently Be Predicted, Will Become Routine And Even Repetitive).

It Would Also Be Strange To Find In The Midst Of A Catalog Of The Rights Of Individuals A Provision Securing To The States The Right To Maintain A Designated "militia." Dispassionate Scholarship Suggests Quite Strongly That The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Meant Just That.