Mark Tushnet Quotations

It's one thing for people to know what your voice is and another to know what you look like.

There's likely to be more informality in the memos, which will be more revealing of Roberts' cast of mind, ... There may also be advocacy of positions that were rejected.

He and his colleagues opened a number of doors that the next court can choose to walk through or not, ... Those doors weren't opened before he arrived.

I don't think his fundamental views changed over the roughly 30 years he was on the court.

Sen. Specter's position is that Congress is creating the interest in ensuring that its powers are respected, which is injured when the court's rule against them, ... And so given that interest and injury, his argument is they have standing to intervene.

They're not willing to subject their designation to the scrutiny of any outsider except under an extremely loose standard.

When you put the memo together with his voting registration challenges and with his opposition to a local antidiscrimination ordinance in Phoenix, ... you get a picture of somebody for whom issues of racial justice and nondiscrimination were not a high priority.

But there are some issues that have simply dropped out of contention,

The Supreme Court has said Congress does have the power to create new legal interests -- to confer standing on people who otherwise wouldn't have it,

When the history of the Supreme Court in the 20th century is written, there will be two great chief justices: Earl Warren and William Rehnquist. Both presided over courts that changed the law in a very dramatic way.