I Want To Commend The [federalist] Society

Private Religious Speech Can't Be Discriminated Against. It Has To Be Treated Equally With Secular Speech.

I Am Deeply Honored To Have Been Nominated For A Position On The Supreme Court. And I An Humbled To Have Been Nominated For The Seat That Is Now Held By Justice Sandra Day O'connor.

My Parents Grew Up In Poor Families Where Little English Was Spoken, They Both Went To College And Became Teachers. They Believed That Anything Was Possible With Hard Work, And They Particularly Stressed The Importance Of Education. They Instilled That Same Belief In My Sister And Me.

Our Country As A Whole, No Less Than The Hastings College Of Law, Values Tolerance, Cooperation, Learning, And The Amicable Resolution Of Conflicts. But We Seek To Achieve Those Goals Through "[a] Confident Pluralism That Conduces To Civil Peace And Advances Democratic Consensus-building," Not By Abridging First Amendment Rights.

Part Of Me Wanted To Get A Graduate Degree In Political Science. Had I Done That, I Suppose I Would Have Become A College Professor.