25 ordspråk av David Yalof
David Yalof
There are issues we have never dealt with before,
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There was one person who kind of stood up and was willing to test the standard and it didn't work out well for him. And thus the lesson was learned for all future nominees, and I suspect for John Roberts as well.
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They are saving their ammunition, saving their energy, saving their resources for what could be the next Armageddon. They can't go all-out over and over.
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They want more latitude to set up roadblocks, things like that, to prevent terrorism and other violent crimes. And it's unclear how the Supreme Court will respond to that kind of argument.
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They've essentially wrapped up their work narrowing a list of replacements and are just waiting quietly for a vacancy.
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This is one of the few ways even a weak president can make his mark — especially when his party controls the Senate.
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This stability has allowed the Court to really get comfortable with themselves,
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What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,
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When the history of the Rehnquist court is written, it will be about a justice who moved the court in a conservative direction, but in a way that did not tear the court apart.
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[In the midst of an undeclared war on terrorism, the courts could ultimately establish new legal precedent.] There are issues we have never dealt with before, ... And some of it has to be made up as we go along. It may be why the Supreme Court is not eager to circumvent the ongoing process. At the very least they may want multiple [lower] courts to look at these cases before they get involved.
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