Thomas Goldstein Quotes (18 Quotes)

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.

people the business community is going to be extremely happy about.

The cases the court has heard in the past, particularly the ones around World War II, do point to some extent in the government's favor,

The Supreme Court has never confronted the question of an American being held here in the United States, or where you have a whole group of people who are being held in a U.S. base at one time without access to courts whatsoever.

In a narrow sense, the public is very concerned about parental notification and other restrictions on the right to abortion,

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,

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.

William Rehnquist was well respected by all his colleagues. John Roberts seemingly has that, plus the added strength of his open personality.

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.

Roberts is in exactly the same position that O'Connor and others have been, ... he's going to be on the court for 30 years, and those issues will continue to come before the court. There's no legal or ethical obligation to get rid of your holdings. But the other justices seem to have made a pragmatic decision that (doing so) is best for the operation of the court.

You can't ever label this court as totally conservative. It's always hard to put the court in a box of a particular label.

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.

The president really would need to replace Justice O'Connor with a woman.

The federal government really has tried to use the concerns of terrorism in the post-911 world to expand its powers and to keep the courts out and say no, the police, the FBI, the CIA need substantially greater discretion,

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.

I feel terrible at the frustration our customers are having on top of getting this letter.

The letters just started going out in the last day or so. Up until today, we still see no signs of misuse of the data. Had we discovered earlier that the data was being misused, we would have come out with an announcement much faster.

It's finally time that the basic questions about the scope of the president's power to hold people without the approval of the courts are really going to be confronted. If you're on U. S. soil, do you have a right to get into U. S. courts and have a lawyer.