David Garrow
David Garrow
David J. Garrowis an American historian and author of the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He is also the author of Liberty and Sexuality, a history of the legal struggles over reproductive rights in the U.S. prior to the Roe v. Wade decision. Garrow writes frequently on the history of the United States Supreme Court and the history of the Civil Rights Movement,...
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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 is personal connections and relationships. And if you look back to a Franklin Roosevelt, a John Kennedy, they were products of that elite world,
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Everything we know about Roberts, needless to say, suggests he has exactly the qualities needed in the chief.
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It will be his court. And we'll know soon enough what that means.
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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.
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I very much think Sandra Day O'Connor will indeed remain a 'real' justice.
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For 30 years, ever since John Paul Stevens, there has been an unbroken pattern of naming sitting appellate judges,
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There are no real blockbuster cases on the docket so far. But there are a number of unusual cases out there, issues the justices want to revisit.