Stephen Breyer

Is there a division, a real division of opinion, about what these words mean among lower court judges? And there are far fewer of those than you think. That's why we get down to 70 or 80 out of 8,000. And sometimes, like Guantanamo Bay and the prisoners kept there, we'll hear a case even though there wasn't a split in the lower courts.

Is there a division, a real division of opinion, about what these words mean among lower court judges? And there are far fewer of those than you think. That's why we get down to 70 or 80 out of 8,000. And sometimes, like Guantanamo Bay and the prisoners kept there, we'll hear a case even though there wasn't a split in the lower courts.

Sometimes it's just important for the nation to have an answer. And so we'll take some of those sometimes. But that's the criteria.

Sometimes it's just important for the nation to have an answer. And so we'll take some of those sometimes. But that's the criteria.