46 Quotes by David Garrow

The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated. No one including the justices themselves will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it.

Most of the trains haven't arrived yet at the station.

I come away with a very strong impression that Roberts will be a much more classical judicial restraint justice than any of the current justices. He betrays no real policy agenda.

Given that there is no evidence this man has ever lost his cool in his adult life, I don't think they are going to lay a finger on him.

I don't think where someone's law degree is from is necessarily a hindrance, ... There is an advantage to going to Harvard or Yale or Chicago.

He was thinking of this in the medical framework of Rochester, Minn. He imagined abortions would be performed by a family physician or in a hospital.

He's certainly a newbie in the formal sense, but he is as personally familiar to them as any newbie outsider could be.

There are no real blockbuster cases on the docket so far. But there are a number of unusual cases out there, issues the justices want to revisit.

It is not surprising in the least that a president from Texas would nominate an SMU graduate to the Supreme Court, ... It would have been surprising for JFK.