[Conservative allies will press the White House to pick another Roberts.] He's a perfect fulfillment of the president's promise, ... There's great happiness with him. If there were another Judge Roberts out there, or the closest thing, I think that would be perfect. |
Bombs could be falling on the White House and that's what she would say, |
I'm hoping and expecting the president will stay on track as he has been in the past five years because it's succeeding now better than it ever has before. Why in heaven's name would you reverse course? |
It makes it a different kind of hearing, because he's got 15 years for everybody to see. He is somebody who is a known quantity to everybody. |
It sounds like the president has an interesting range of candidates before him. Which one of them he'll settle on no one knows, but we do know he has promised nominees who represent his judicial philosophy like Justices [Antonin] Scalia and [Clarence] Thomas. No president in recent memory has done such a great job of choosing jurists who are faithful to the Constitution. |
Justice Thomas, my old boss, got 52 votes. Justice (Antonin) Scalia got 98 votes, ... But Justice Thomas is no less a justice than Justice Scalia. They have the same vote on the court. |
The best predictor of future Supreme Court performance is prior court performance, |
The best predictor of future Supreme Court performance is prior court performance, ... It avoids the problem of only being able to evaluate someone through privileged documents. |
The best predictor of future Supreme Court performance is prior court performance. |
The best predictor of future Supreme Court performance is prior court performance. It avoids the problem of only being able to evaluate someone through privileged documents. |
The president promised in two campaigns to nominate justices who will faithfully uphold the text and principles of the Constitution. One would expect the president to nominate more exceptional judicial conservatives like Judge Roberts for as many vacancies as occur, whether it is two, three, or more. |
The president will probably just stick with the formula that has served him so well over five years of judicial selections, including the choice of Chief Justice John Roberts. That is to pick a nominee with sterling legal credentials, weighty judicial experience and a transparent public record. |
The vote shows that a strong, unapologetic, judicial conservative in the mold of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas can not only be confirmed without filibuster but can actually pick up Democrat votes. |
The vote was 10-8 the day President Bush nominated him, the vote was 10-8 when the hearings began, the vote was 10-8 yesterday, and the vote is 10-8 today. |
They are widely respected among the bench and bar nationally for being careful jurists, faithful to the Constitution and proponents of judicial restraint, ... They have so much in common substantively that their differences are more stylistic. |