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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I just can't imagine a scenario in which the White House seriously risks a defeat.
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He was thinking of this in the medical framework of Rochester, Minn. He imagined abortions would be performed by a family physician or in a hospital.
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It will be his court. And we'll know soon enough what that means.
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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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Everything we know about Roberts, needless to say, suggests he has exactly the qualities needed in the chief.
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I very much think Sandra Day O'Connor will indeed remain a 'real' justice.
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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.
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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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the serious constitutional heavy lifting is done in the Justice Department.
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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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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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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,