18 Quotes by Edward Lazarus

Liberals, the moderates and conservatives on the bench have been feeling out Chief Justice Roberts to see ... what kinds of arguments appeal to him, what kind of person is he.

She doesn't give much guidance to other courts in her rulings, there's a lack of consistency, distinctiveness. Often it seems her opinions are too narrow, reflecting only how it strikes just Justice O'Connor, what she personally thinks.

She is arguably the most influential woman in the United States, ... Closed Chamber: An Inside Account of the Supreme Court.

I think we can be pretty darn sure he's not another Scalia.

Some of the things he has said can't be good news to conservatives,

I think if, Kerry wins there's a reasonable chance that you might see Justice Stevens step down, ... And if Bush wins, I think there's a reasonable chance you'd see the chief step down. I think we're getting close to it.

Most of the cases they work on are boring from a layman's point of view, but important, and ferocious, from an economic point of view.

We have this idealistic notion in this country that we can live in kind of splendid anonymity, we can walk around and be left alone. And this question really raises, in the post-9/11 era, the issue of whether that's really true anymore.

There is a very steep learning curve, even for someone as versed in constitutional law as Roberts is.