12 Quotes by Michael Gerhardt

I don't know that we've had a circumstance where the president may be signing a bill that one of the chambers didn't actually approve. That's the unique wrinkle here.

If Bush is re-elected, I would suspect several justices would step down in the next four years.

I think it's an open-and-shut case. It would be a horrible precedent to set if this is how Congress is allowed to make laws.

That bill ... is actually not a properly enacted law. It wouldn't surprise me if a court struck it down. That bill was not approved by the House.

This shows that President Bush prizes legal philosophy above all else.

This was an incredibly high-profile case -- one could not even imagine a more high-profile case -- and look at the fact that we had this major screw-up,

is Justice Scalia, but maybe with a smile and a little more polite and less temperamental.

It strikes me as quite unusual that she would have a process unlike that for any other one under consideration.

It's got new members and big cases, and the combination of those things will make it historic.