[It's] a demoralization of the conservative legal establishment, which is told in effect, 'If you're productive, if you stand up out there, you are not going to be chosen.' |
[One noted legal authority endorses the White House response.] As I understand it, you can get marijuana whether or not you're really sick at all, ... Whether or not it really helps with pain or illness, effectively it's the legalization of marijuana. |
[Roberts has always been popular and has always been the] big man on campus. ... I can fend for myself on the way down. |
[Roberts, President Bush's choice to replace the late William Rehnquist as chief justice of the Supreme Court, is well prepared for the post, Bork said. While praising Roberts for his] brilliant mind, ... never heard [Roberts] say anything about judicial philosophy. |
[Speaking on CNN's] The Situation Room ... I don't think anyone knows her at all. |
a disaster on every level. |
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable. |
Americans revere both the Constitution and an independent Court that applies the document's provisions. The Court has done many excellent things in our history, and few people are willing to see its power broken. The difficulty with all proposals to respond to the Court when it behaves unconstitutionally is that they would create a power to destroy the Court's essential work as well. |
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement. |
be indifferent, if not actively hostile, to conservative values. |
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. |
confirm a nominee with no visible judicial philosophy who lacks the basic skills of persuasive argument and clear writing. |
Consumers will benefit from multiple sources of innovation, |
How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right. |
I don't know if [the Democrats] can pull a filibuster on a Supreme Court nominee. That would be very unpopular, I think, with the American people. I think they would be in trouble. |