17 Quotes by David Yalof

What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,

When the history of the Rehnquist court is written, it will be about a justice who moved the court in a conservative direction, but in a way that did not tear the court apart.

No one could possibly have thought in 1956 that William Brennan was on the top 100 list of people to become a justice of the Supreme Court,

On issues involving the War on Terrorism, there is a lot of reason to believe Gonzales will be more conservative than Rehnquist. He is more likely to confer broad powers to the executive branch,

He was one of the great failures in Supreme Court history, ... He was overwhelmed by the job and quit after just five years.

He did it by choosing carefully the doctrine of judicial restraint. You see it in the cases the court hears, and showing the way with his brand of leadership.

This stability has allowed the Court to really get comfortable with themselves,

There are issues we have never dealt with before,

Are you a Scalia Catholic, a Brennan Catholic or a Kennedy Catholic?