It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

You salivate on signal; they want a Pavlovian justice.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. [W]e are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.