David Garrow Quotations

I think this is as close to a sure thing as we can get.

He was thinking of this in the medical framework of Rochester, Minn. He imagined abortions would be performed by a family physician or in a hospital.

He's certainly a newbie in the formal sense, but he is as personally familiar to them as any newbie outsider could be.

I believe he believes in shrinking the social or political footprint of the court. But can you think of any current justices, right or left, who believe the same thing?

I don't think where someone's law degree is from is necessarily a hindrance, ... There is an advantage to going to Harvard or Yale or Chicago.

This court has been very aggressive in defining the bounds of the other branches, and Congress in particular, ... And that has to do with Rehnquist's vision as much as anybody's.

I come away with a very strong impression that Roberts will be a much more classical judicial restraint justice than any of the current justices. He betrays no real policy agenda.

Almost certainly on the table here is an awful lot more than the federal partial-birth ban.

The evidence in this poll suggests that race relations in America may be distinctly better than most of us think they are, ... Bearing the Cross.

The health exception is based on professional respect and regard for doctors. Health is anything a doctor says it is, and neither legislators nor judges should be redefining it. I don't think it can be abused.