Michael Gerhardt
Michael Gerhardt
Michael J. Gerhardt is the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill. He is also the Director of the Center on Law and Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an expert on constitutional law, separation of powers, and the legislative process...
debate doors erase far fight happened itching nomination opens philosophy provoke somebody whose
The far right has been itching for a fight for some time, ... They want to erase what happened to Bork, and they want to have somebody whose nomination will provoke a debate about all these big issues, and if they win, then they feel that vindicates their philosophy and its opens doors to other like nominees.
justice less maybe polite smile
is Justice Scalia, but maybe with a smile and a little more polite and less temperamental.
allowed congress horrible precedent
I think it's an open-and-shut case. It would be a horrible precedent to set if this is how Congress is allowed to make laws.
members
It's got new members and big cases, and the combination of those things will make it historic.