Michael Gerhardt Quotations

I don't know that we've had a circumstance where the president may be signing a bill that one of the chambers didn't actually approve. That's the unique wrinkle here.

If Bush is re-elected, I would suspect several justices would step down in the next four years.

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.

That bill ... is actually not a properly enacted law. It wouldn't surprise me if a court struck it down. That bill was not approved by the House.

This shows that President Bush prizes legal philosophy above all else.

This was an incredibly high-profile case -- one could not even imagine a more high-profile case -- and look at the fact that we had this major screw-up,

is Justice Scalia, but maybe with a smile and a little more polite and less temperamental.

It strikes me as quite unusual that she would have a process unlike that for any other one under consideration.

It's got new members and big cases, and the combination of those things will make it historic.

The norm is to do as much of a background check as possible to prepare yourself for all possible attacks. They did not do that here.

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.

He thought he could have a complete and full dialogue. He created landmines for himself.