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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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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The health exception is based on professional respect and regard for doctors. Health is anything a doctor says it is, and neither legislators nor judges should be redefining it. I don't think it can be abused.
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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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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.
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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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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.