It's hard to get people to understand what the court means in their daily lives.

It's unbelievable how poorly informed we are, how little information we have to go on.

That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would be OK, unless you proved you were the more qualified candidate.

John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's rights.

In the end, he refused to commit to upholding the core principles of Roe.

We must oppose his confirmation as chief justice even more strenuously because, in that post, he would have even greater power to shape the direction of our courts, our laws and our lives.