[In] A Court Divided, ... I never had to think about these things until I came to Washington. I never thought about them. I had no settled views. |
[Still, the Supreme Court is another kind of universe.] If there were an ad for the job, it would be, 'Inside work, no heavy lifting,' ... The justices hear only the cases they want to hear, write only what they want to write. It's great. |
But there are some issues that have simply dropped out of contention, |
He and his colleagues opened a number of doors that the next court can choose to walk through or not, ... Those doors weren't opened before he arrived. |
He was working for the people of the United States. |
I don't think his fundamental views changed over the roughly 30 years he was on the court. |
I think he'd look back and say his greatest disappointment was his inability to lead the court to overrule Roe V. Wade. |
I think toward the end of his tenure he was more sensitive to the compromises that you have to make if you're going to assemble a majority. |
It's one thing for people to know what your voice is and another to know what you look like. |
Sen. Specter's position is that Congress is creating the interest in ensuring that its powers are respected, which is injured when the court's rule against them, ... And so given that interest and injury, his argument is they have standing to intervene. |
The court has gotten more conservative as the country has, but individual members of the court haven't changed — certainly not Rehnquist. The court and the country changed around him. |
The difficulty with the administration's position is that, at least as applied to U.S. citizens, it poses a threat to essentially anyone who the administration chooses to call an enemy combatant, |
The Supreme Court has said Congress does have the power to create new legal interests -- to confer standing on people who otherwise wouldn't have it, |
There's likely to be more informality in the memos, which will be more revealing of Roberts' cast of mind, ... There may also be advocacy of positions that were rejected. |
There's likely to be more informality in the memos, which will be more revealing of Roberts' cast of mind. There may also be advocacy of positions that were rejected. |