Sean Rushton Quotations

It certainly sounds as if he's getting pulled into Chuck Schumer's demands for unprecedented specificity in case law. To discuss recent cases and controversies and to have the Senate attempt to reject or confirm nominees based on a checklist of how they would rule on individual cases is clearly an attack on the judiciary's independence.

It is sickening that some in Washington would politicize a national tragedy.

It is a rare instance of the base being displeased with a major decision of this president.

If the left wants to argue that the president needs to be weaker when it comes to protecting this country from terrorist cells, I think that's the kind of debate where we probably won't have to say a whole lot to undercut their argument.

Nothing better exemplifies the chasm of difference between how the left and the right think about the courts. The wisdom we want is the wisdom to defend the structure of our system for everyone. What they're really saying is that the judge should bend or break the law in order to achieve a favorable short-term result.

This shows the degree to which liberal Hollywood is financially supporting the leading groups attacking the president's court nominees.

Once a nominee starts taking strong public positions, the cat is out of the bag.

The people who would know have not been talking to anybody but each other. The message broadcast by the White House up to this point has just been to focus on an orderly process for Roberts.

a problem for the liberal groups and senators who want to turn this into a spectacle. . . . When the media have other serious things to focus their attention on, they tend to spend less time and less ink on the tit-for-tat, he said/she said elements that frequently accompany a confirmation hearing.

We're attempting to drive a wedge between red state senators and liberal interest groups.