It is to me, obvious in the memo that I wrote to Fred Fielding that it was about whether or not it's good to have more lawyers. Whether they were from homemakers, from plumbers, from artists or truck drivers had nothing to do with it, |
It reaffirmed the central holding in Roe v. Wade. |
It was my job to articulate the administration policy, |
It will be a big gulp. |
It?s just about impossible to be in office and not do it. |
It's a sad day for us, ... Our country has lost a remarkable public servant, and my family and I have lost a very dear friend. |
It's an old story that the appointees - once they're on the court - they tend to go their own way. And it's not always the way that the Presidents who appointed them predicted would be the case. |
It's because we want him or her to apply the law, |
It's been pretty quiet. I just think the market's going to continue to leak here. |
It's entitled to respect under those principles, |
It's not just the point guard -- it's every player on the floor. It's people cutting, getting to the baseline. |
It's one of those things I think is difficult to put yourself in that position and say, well, with any degree of confidence, if I were suffering and confronting the end of life, this is what I would want to do, |
It's settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis, |
Judge Roberts, the legal automaton, as opposed to Judge Roberts, the man. |
Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them, |