“Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.”
William Howard Taft
“I guess we're all excited that President Bush announced his nomination to the Supreme Court - John Roberts. Bush searched far and wide before he made the risky choice of a white guy in his 50s,”
David Letterman
“It's reaching out. But the Supreme Court is exactly the place where the president should draw the line.”
David Frum
“a technical difference between circuit courts, which are bound by precedent, and the Supreme Court, which often gives great deference to precedent but is not required to abide by it.”
Tasia Scolinos
“There is clear repudiation of the government's absolute position that the courts have no role. The Supreme Court did offer the executive a real change to balance how much procedure the detainees would get, it's not that they have all the rights of a U.S. citizen in every court case, but it does absolutely reject the president's claim that it is only his choice who gets to go to court and when.”
Thomas Goldstein
“We won this election for the President, and we deserve to have the next Supreme Court nominee, we deserve to be heard, we deserve to have our policies implemented.”
Christine Todd Whitman
“Today, the Supreme Court affirms (the trial courts') findings.”
Craig Waters