David Yalof Quotations

There are issues we have never dealt with before,

When the history of the Rehnquist court is written, it will be about a justice who moved the court in a conservative direction, but in a way that did not tear the court apart.

He took the fight out of the opposition.

The issue has never been most qualified, the issue is qualified.

What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,

The impact is that it really gives attorneys an avenue to raise new types of challenges to federal statutes that wouldn't have been considered 15-20 years ago.

No one could possibly have thought in 1956 that William Brennan was on the top 100 list of people to become a justice of the Supreme Court,

On issues involving the War on Terrorism, there is a lot of reason to believe Gonzales will be more conservative than Rehnquist. He is more likely to confer broad powers to the executive branch,

This stability has allowed the Court to really get comfortable with themselves,

The Bush administration has done a great job in reviewing the candidates, going through their opinions, backgrounds, and speeches,