17 Quotes by David Yalof

The Bush administration has done a great job in reviewing the candidates, going through their opinions, backgrounds, and speeches,

This is one of the few ways even a weak president can make his mark especially when his party controls the Senate.

They've essentially wrapped up their work narrowing a list of replacements and are just waiting quietly for a vacancy.

There was one person who kind of stood up and was willing to test the standard and it didn't work out well for him. And thus the lesson was learned for all future nominees, and I suspect for John Roberts as well.

The issue has never been most qualified, the issue is qualified.

Circulating names on a short list creates a pre-vetting process, so they can at least know what to expect,

He took the fight out of the opposition.

The impact is that it really gives attorneys an avenue to raise new types of challenges to federal statutes that wouldn't have been considered 15-20 years ago.