Michael Gerhardt Quotations

I don't know that we've had a circumstance where the president may be signing a bill that one of the chambers didn't actually approve. That's the unique wrinkle here.

This shows that President Bush prizes legal philosophy above all else.

The norm is to do as much of a background check as possible to prepare yourself for all possible attacks. They did not do that here.

I think it's an open-and-shut case. It would be a horrible precedent to set if this is how Congress is allowed to make laws.

That bill ... is actually not a properly enacted law. It wouldn't surprise me if a court struck it down. That bill was not approved by the House.

He thought he could have a complete and full dialogue. He created landmines for himself.

It strikes me as quite unusual that she would have a process unlike that for any other one under consideration.

If Bush is re-elected, I would suspect several justices would step down in the next four years.

This was an incredibly high-profile case -- one could not even imagine a more high-profile case -- and look at the fact that we had this major screw-up,

It's got new members and big cases, and the combination of those things will make it historic.