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Unlike with Kennedy, there was no honeymoon period for conservatives, ... Souter relatively quickly moved to the left. And there were explicit assurances from [then White House Chief of Staff John] Sununu that Souter was a conservative. - Mark Tushnet Quotes

Unlike with Kennedy, there was no honeymoon period for conservatives, ... Souter relatively quickly moved to the left. And there were explicit assurances from [then White House Chief of Staff John] Sununu that Souter was a conservative.

[In] A Court Divided, ... I never had to think about these things until I came to Washington. I never thought about them. I had no settled views. - Mark Tushnet Quotes

[In] A Court Divided, ... I never had to think about these things until I came to Washington. I never thought about them. I had no settled views.

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

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

I think toward the end of his tenure he was more sensitive to the compromises that you have to make if you're going to assemble a majority. - Mark Tushnet Quotes

I think toward the end of his tenure he was more sensitive to the compromises that you have to make if you're going to assemble a majority.

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. - Mark Tushnet Quotes

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.

You'd have a fight about this among lawyers, - Mark Tushnet Quotes

You'd have a fight about this among lawyers,

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, - Mark Tushnet Quotes

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,

[Still, the Supreme Court is another kind of universe.] If there were an ad for the job, it would be, 'Inside work, no heavy lifting,' ... The justices hear only the cases they want to hear, write only what they want to write. It's great. - Mark Tushnet Quotes

[Still, the Supreme Court is another kind of universe.] If there were an ad for the job, it would be, 'Inside work, no heavy lifting,' ... The justices hear only the cases they want to hear, write only what they want to write. It's great.

But there are some issues that have simply dropped out of contention, - Mark Tushnet Quotes

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

The difficulty with the administration's position is that, at least as applied to U.S. citizens, it poses a threat to essentially anyone who the administration chooses to call an enemy combatant, - Mark Tushnet Quotes

The difficulty with the administration's position is that, at least as applied to U.S. citizens, it poses a threat to essentially anyone who the administration chooses to call an enemy combatant,

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