There's enormous drama and anticipation. Is he going to announce his resignation? Are we going to spend this summer in a confirmation fight? |
This is a docket that already has an extraordinary number of potential blockbuster cases. It will give us an early sense of who John Roberts is. |
This is a law that will never go into effect. They knew that. They did it because they thought there would be some political value in doing so. |
This is really a case about states' rights. |
What brought down the Nixon administration wasn't the burglary itself, but the cover-up of it, ... wasn't that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky but he lied about it. |
You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist. |