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“Cases that reach the Supreme Court often involve some of our most challenging public policy issues,” Porter said in an e-mail. “John Roberts’ background, experience, mind, and temperament make him a superb choice to sit on and to...
Clayton, who alone has not announced formally for Christianity, says simply that for journalists "religion was an easy angle, a hook to hang a story on. We all believe in much the same things but don't express ourselves in the same way." This, along with Clayton's inborn rebellious...
Outside law schools, the Rehnquist court will be remembered for its bitterly split 5-to-4 decision in 2000 in Bush v. Gore, which many Democrats saw as sneaky Republican prestidigitation to give George W. Bush the White House. It was one of the few decisions in which Rehnquist supported...
Now that Rehnquist is gone, his passions for limited government and strict constitutional interpretation will be carried further by his more ideological heirs, Thomas and Antonin Scalia-and, presumably, by whomever Bush appoints to replace him. But Scalia lacks the temperament-and Thomas, the vision-to match the departed Chief...
“In my judgment, your 2004-05 conduct, implicating, as it does, profound issues of temperament and judgment, merits no increase whatsoever,” Harper wrote to Summers.