It is not surprising in the least that a president from Texas would nominate an SMU graduate to the Supreme Court, ... It would have been surprising for JFK. |
It is personal connections and relationships. And if you look back to a Franklin Roosevelt, a John Kennedy, they were products of that elite world, |
It will be his court. And we'll know soon enough what that means. |
It would be easy to say the decade of embarrassment is primarily the children's fault. I don't think that would be honest or fair. I think Mrs. King herself increasingly found that running a historical archive was not going to be a profit-making venture. The sense that his legacy ought to be used for maximum income — I think that's something that increasingly stems from her. |
It's a real, powerfully original argument the [U.S. solicitor general] is making here. And Roberts is not only indisputably the fifth and controlling vote; so long as Kennedy agrees with him, Roberts will control how far the Court majority chooses to take this. |
Judge Roberts has a combination of substantive expertise and stylistic smoothness ... He's likely to fly through this without anyone laying a fingernail on him. |
Most of the trains haven't arrived yet at the station. |
Much of her behavior of the past 15 years — all the crass or embarrassing commercial uses of his name or image — has its roots in the sense of privation she experienced when he was alive. Not only did they not have any money, but Doc did not believe in spending money on the family and the household. He would spend money on food, good hotels, good suits, but that was about it. |
Much of the controversy about abortion is really stimulated by the interest groups on both sides of the political question, rather than by ordinary Americans. The American people and many political leaders have already made up their minds about legal abortion. |
Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court as the justices' presiding officer, ... The contrast between Rehnquist's undeniably happy Court and that of his predecessor, Warren E. Burger, could not have been greater. |
Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court as the justices' presiding officer. The contrast between Rehnquist's undeniably happy Court and that of his predecessor, Warren E. Burger, could not have been greater. |
Prior to Roe , ... whether one could obtain a legal abortion in the face of an unwanted pregnancy was a crap shoot. For 30 years now, it's been a constitutionally guaranteed right. |
The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated, ... No one _ including the justices themselves _ will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it. |
The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated, ... No one -- including the justices themselves -- will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it. |
The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated, ... No one — including the justices themselves — will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it. |