17 Quotes by Mark Tushnet

The Supreme Court has said Congress does have the power to create new legal interests -- to confer standing on people who otherwise wouldn't have it,

They really did reshape the law in significant ways. So, in some ways, he doesn't need to be as hard-edged now as when he started. He has accomplished a lot, so it's less urgent for him to be pressing hard for change.

They're not willing to subject their designation to the scrutiny of any outsider except under an extremely loose standard.

It's one thing for people to know what your voice is and another to know what you look like.

He and his colleagues opened a number of doors that the next court can choose to walk through or not, ... Those doors weren't opened before he arrived.

You'd have a fight about this among lawyers,

The court has gotten more conservative as the country has, but individual members of the court haven't changed certainly not Rehnquist. The court and the country changed around him.

The difficulty with the administration's position is that, at least as applied to U.S. citizens, it poses a threat to essentially anyone who the administration chooses to call an enemy combatant,