46 Quotes by David Garrow

the serious constitutional heavy lifting is done in the Justice Department.

This court has been very aggressive in defining the bounds of the other branches, and Congress in particular, ... And that has to do with Rehnquist's vision as much as anybody's.

This is a case in which substantial damage could be done to abortion rights without anyone seriously being able to claim that Roe v. Wade is in danger.

Almost certainly on the table here is an awful lot more than the federal partial-birth ban.

A committed conservative with interpersonal skills equal to or superior to Rehnquist's would be a far more effective chief justice than a nominee of equal intellect who lacks those graces.

It is personal connections and relationships. And if you look back to a Franklin Roosevelt, a John Kennedy, they were products of that elite world,

For 30 years, ever since John Paul Stevens, there has been an unbroken pattern of naming sitting appellate judges,

The No. 1 thing is that this is the entire court - especially O'Connor - again trying to turn down the temperature on the issue and force both sides toward the middle. This is the court saying: We don't want to give either side all or nothing. We're going to force you to split the loaf.

It will be his court. And we'll know soon enough what that means.