It was kind of unhealthy to have these things undecided. |
My feeling on the Republican side, unfortunately, is they just want to make him look like an American hero who is both the most brilliant person in the world and the nicest person in the world. |
On the facts thus far, the president has a decent argument that he acted lawfully. There's also a decent argument that he didn't. But if the president has a decent argument, he can't be impeached for getting it wrong. |
People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions. |
Rehnquist really was treated unfairly, ... A person is a career, not a moment. |
She doesn't have anything like the qualifications of recent nominees. They were exceptionally qualified, both by their judicial experience and experience before they were on the court. Those three were a whole different league of qualifications. |
She is unquestionably an intelligent person and a competent lawyer. But she's had very little experience in constitutional law. |
The Court failed to identify a provision of the (Constitution) that the Connecticut law violated. Instead it spoke vaguely of the 'penumbras' and 'emanations' of the Bill of Rights, in language that continues to turn the stomach of fundamentalists (and many others), ... Radicals in Robes. |
The impeachment provision is for truly egregious wrongdoing, and we shouldn't repeat the unconstitutional impeachment of President Clinton. |
There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft. |
There is a Republican noise machine that goes on arguing that 'legal activism' is killing us. Liberal judicial activism was decades ago. |
There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause. |
We also learned he was really smart, careful, and that he did not hold any irresponsible or reckless positions. He was not a flame-thrower?. It is clear he is not a bombastic person. He hews closely to legal materials. |
We learned at least back then he was quite conservative. He was even a relative conservative in the Reagan Justice Department, which is saying something, |
We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can't be anticipated. |