11 Quotes by Michael Dorf

Shaquille O'Neal, when asked about his terrible free-throw shooting, says he makes them when they count. This strikes me as a bad answer in basketball and in law, because they all count.

Based on (Wright's) determination that Jones failed to show any adverse job impact to her, whether Clinton had a sexual affair with Lewinsky is irrelevant.

He fired the shots across the bow of Congress, and he has gotten the lower courts to pay attention to these things.

Jewish music has come an extremely long way since Bob Zimmerman changed his name to Dylan. Now you have Madonna adopting Jewish culture and making it pop, showing the Hebrew aleph on a backdrop in her concerts. It's an interesting phenomenon, and the festival is a bit of a manifestation that Jewish music is becoming a genre of sorts.

Today's cutting-edge technology has broadened the horizon of possibilities for music audiences.

The real question in this case ... is who makes the threshold determination of using a civilian or military legal system. It's a classic case of executive and congressional power versus judicial power.

We picked a radical. Someone not typically considered, someone who has never been honored by the UJA for any Jewish function. It's out of left field, and that allows us a lot of room to grow. At the same ceremony we will also be honoring Debbie Friedman; ours is a very wide definition of Jewish music.

At that point, Roberts either has to join them, saying that Roe is good law, ... or he has to join the dissent of Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas, each of whom says Roe is an abomination and should be taken off the books.

Anything the court does that is controversial is going to be in danger as long as it's controversial. The reason why racial segregation in schools is not going to come back is not because all nine justices think Brown is right. It's because the country has accepted that it is right.