David Garrow
David Garrow
David J. Garrowis an American historian and author of the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He is also the author of Liberty and Sexuality, a history of the legal struggles over reproductive rights in the U.S. prior to the Roe v. Wade decision. Garrow writes frequently on the history of the United States Supreme Court and the history of the Civil Rights Movement,...
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He's certainly a newbie in the formal sense, but he is as personally familiar to them as any newbie outsider could be.
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The overarching theme in the questionnaire, I think, is trying too hard to gin herself up, ... She makes it sound like the White House counsel's office is the solicitor general, which it's not. She's presenting it as an office with major constitutional responsibility.
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I very much think Sandra Day O'Connor will indeed remain a 'real' justice.
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the serious constitutional heavy lifting is done in the Justice Department.
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I just can't imagine a scenario in which the White House seriously risks a defeat.
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It will be his court. And we'll know soon enough what that means.
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It is personal connections and relationships. And if you look back to a Franklin Roosevelt, a John Kennedy, they were products of that elite world,
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The volume is being turned up on both sides, both in the attacks on the court and in the justices' response.
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A committed conservative with interpersonal skills equal to or superior to Rehnquist's would be a far more effective chief justice than a nominee of equal intellect who lacks those graces.
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For 30 years, ever since John Paul Stevens, there has been an unbroken pattern of naming sitting appellate judges,
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This is a case in which substantial damage could be done to abortion rights without anyone seriously being able to claim that Roe v. Wade is in danger.
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Almost certainly on the table here is an awful lot more than the federal partial-birth ban.
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The No. 1 thing is that this is the entire court - especially O'Connor - again trying to turn down the temperature on the issue and force both sides toward the middle. This is the court saying: We don't want to give either side all or nothing. We're going to force you to split the loaf.
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This court has been very aggressive in defining the bounds of the other branches, and Congress in particular, ... And that has to do with Rehnquist's vision as much as anybody's.