David Yalof
David Yalof
David Alistair Yalof is an American academic. He is Professor and Department Head of the Political Science department at the University of Connecticut, where he specializes in constitutional law, judicial politics and executive branch politics. His books include Pursuit of Justices, which NBC News called "the definitive book on post-World War II Supreme Court nominees"...
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Are you a Scalia Catholic, a Brennan Catholic or a Kennedy Catholic?
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No one could possibly have thought in 1956 that William Brennan was on the top 100 list of people to become a justice of the Supreme Court,
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On issues involving the War on Terrorism, there is a lot of reason to believe Gonzales will be more conservative than Rehnquist. He is more likely to confer broad powers to the executive branch,
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There are issues we have never dealt with before,
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When the history of the Rehnquist court is written, it will be about a justice who moved the court in a conservative direction, but in a way that did not tear the court apart.
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What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,
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This stability has allowed the Court to really get comfortable with themselves,
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They've essentially wrapped up their work narrowing a list of replacements and are just waiting quietly for a vacancy.
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There was one person who kind of stood up and was willing to test the standard and it didn't work out well for him. And thus the lesson was learned for all future nominees, and I suspect for John Roberts as well.
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The Bush administration has done a great job in reviewing the candidates, going through their opinions, backgrounds, and speeches,
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This is one of the few ways even a weak president can make his mark especially when his party controls the Senate.
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He was one of the great failures in Supreme Court history, ... He was overwhelmed by the job and quit after just five years.
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He did it by choosing carefully the doctrine of judicial restraint. You see it in the cases the court hears, and showing the way with his brand of leadership.
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Circulating names on a short list creates a pre-vetting process, so they can at least know what to expect,