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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The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated. No one including the justices themselves will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it.
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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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There are no real blockbuster cases on the docket so far. But there are a number of unusual cases out there, issues the justices want to revisit.
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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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Everything we know about Roberts, needless to say, suggests he has exactly the qualities needed in the chief.
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Judge Roberts has a combination of substantive expertise and stylistic smoothness ... He's likely to fly through this without anyone laying a fingernail on him.
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I think this is as close to a sure thing as we can get.
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Given that there is no evidence this man has ever lost his cool in his adult life, I don't think they are going to lay a finger on him.
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I don't think where someone's law degree is from is necessarily a hindrance, ... There is an advantage to going to Harvard or Yale or Chicago.
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I come away with a very strong impression that Roberts will be a much more classical judicial restraint justice than any of the current justices. He betrays no real policy agenda.
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Most of the trains haven't arrived yet at the station.
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The phrasing of it is so atypical, almost original. I think it's an important indicator of what kind of justice he might be.
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Within the world of Austin and (Bush's) growing up in Texas, SMU is more than perfectly respectable, It certainly is above, say, Baylor in that sense, ... SMU may not quite be ranked by anybody with Duke, Vanderbilt, Emory or Tulane. But it is in that family even if not atop that family.