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. |
The evidence in this poll suggests that race relations in America may be distinctly better than most of us think they are, ... Bearing the Cross. |
The health exception is based on professional respect and regard for doctors. Health is anything a doctor says it is, and neither legislators nor judges should be redefining it. I don't think it can be abused. |
The No. 1 thing is that this is the entire court - especially O'Connor - again trying to turn down the temperature on the issue and force both sides toward the middle. This is the court saying: We don't want to give either side all or nothing. We're going to force you to split the loaf. |
The overarching theme in the questionnaire, I think, is trying too hard to gin herself up, ... She makes it sound like the White House counsel's office is the solicitor general, which it's not. She's presenting it as an office with major constitutional responsibility. |
The phrasing of it is so atypical, almost original. I think it's an important indicator of what kind of justice he might be. |
the serious constitutional heavy lifting is done in the Justice Department. |
The volume is being turned up on both sides, both in the attacks on the court and in the justices' response. |
There are no real blockbuster cases on the docket so far. But there are a number of unusual cases out there, issues the justices want to revisit. |
This court has been very aggressive in defining the bounds of the other branches, and Congress in particular, ... And that has to do with Rehnquist's vision as much as anybody's. |
This court has been very aggressive in defining the bounds of the other branches, and Congress in particular. And that has to do with Rehnquist's vision as much as anybody's. |
This is a case in which substantial damage could be done to abortion rights without anyone seriously being able to claim that Roe v. Wade is in danger. |
Within the world of Austin and (Bush's) growing up in Texas, SMU is more than perfectly respectable, It certainly is above, say, Baylor in that sense, ... SMU may not quite be ranked by anybody with Duke, Vanderbilt, Emory or Tulane. But it is in that family even if not atop that family. |