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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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.David Garrow
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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The overarching theme in the questionnaire, I think, is trying too hard to gin herself up, ... She makes it sound like the White House counsel's office is the solicitor general, which it's not. She's presenting it as an office with major constitutional responsibility.
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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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It's a real, powerfully original argument the U. S. solicitor general is making here. And Roberts is not only indisputably the fifth and controlling vote so long as Kennedy agrees with him, Roberts will control how far the Court majority chooses to take this.
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Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court as the justices' presiding officer, ... The contrast between Rehnquist's undeniably happy Court and that of his predecessor, Warren E. Burger, could not have been greater.
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