Wendy Long Quotations

Justice Thomas, my old boss, got 52 votes. Justice (Antonin) Scalia got 98 votes, ... But Justice Thomas is no less a justice than Justice Scalia. They have the same vote on the court.

The president will probably just stick with the formula that has served him so well over five years of judicial selections, including the choice of Chief Justice John Roberts. That is to pick a nominee with sterling legal credentials, weighty judicial experience and a transparent public record.

The president promised in two campaigns to nominate justices who will faithfully uphold the text and principles of the Constitution. One would expect the president to nominate more exceptional judicial conservatives like Judge Roberts for as many vacancies as occur, whether it is two, three, or more.

This vote will be all of those and then some.

Bombs could be falling on the White House and that's what she would say,

It makes it a different kind of hearing, because he's got 15 years for everybody to see. He is somebody who is a known quantity to everybody.

The best predictor of future Supreme Court performance is prior court performance.

The vote was 10-8 the day President Bush nominated him, the vote was 10-8 when the hearings began, the vote was 10-8 yesterday, and the vote is 10-8 today.

The vote shows that a strong, unapologetic, judicial conservative in the mold of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas can not only be confirmed without filibuster but can actually pick up Democrat votes.

They are widely respected among the bench and bar nationally for being careful jurists, faithful to the Constitution and proponents of judicial restraint, ... They have so much in common substantively that their differences are more stylistic.

I'm hoping and expecting the president will stay on track as he has been in the past five years because it's succeeding now better than it ever has before. Why in heaven's name would you reverse course?

You don't have to be a clone of Judge Roberts.