Thomas Goldstein
Thomas Goldstein
Thomas C. Goldstein, known as simply Tom Goldstein, is an American attorney known for his advocacy before and blogging about the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe, a Washington, D.C. firm specializing in Supreme Court litigation, and was, until the end of 2010, a partner at Akin Gump, where he was co-head of the litigation and Supreme Court practices. In 2003, he co-founded SCOTUSblog, the most widely read blog covering the...
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William Rehnquist was well respected by all his colleagues. John Roberts seemingly has that, plus the added strength of his open personality.
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people the business community is going to be extremely happy about.
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Big business has been a huge supporter of the president. It's reasonable to expect that they're going to get a nominee that remains pro-business.
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The Supreme Court explained to universities how it is that they can take race into account in admitting students, and it does lay a road map for the next 25 years on how they'll do that,
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Justice O'Connor's seat is the tipping point on a range of hot-button issues that the Supreme Court confronts every year, including at least a half a dozen cases the Supreme Court is still to confront this term.
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perpetuate paralyzing uncertainty that allows them to continue selling their branded drugs at monopoly prices.
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More broadly, this case is really a bellwether for where the Supreme Court is going to go in terms of limiting Roe v. Wade, and potentially eventually overruling it.
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I feel terrible at the frustration our customers are having on top of getting this letter.
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The president really would need to replace Justice O'Connor with a woman.
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The nomination, unless it makes substantial progress, is in jeopardy,
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It was like they scheduled the fireworks and everybody came and suddenly they were canceled.
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There is clear repudiation of the government's absolute position that the courts have no role. The Supreme Court did offer the executive a real change to balance how much procedure the detainees would get, it's not that they have all the rights of a U.S. citizen in every court case, but it does absolutely reject the president's claim that it is only his choice who gets to go to court and when.
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As you can imagine, I personally am just sick that we missed this thing by one month.
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I think what every lawyer wants is a judge, whether conservative or liberal, who, when it comes to the job of judging, will call things straight and adhere to the rule of law.