Edward Lazarus
Edward Lazarus
Edward Lazarusis a lawyer and writer. He currently serves as executive vice president and general counsel for the Tribune Corporation, following its exit from bankruptcy. He served as Chief of Staff of the Federal Communications Commission from June 2008 to January 2012. He went to the FCC from the Los Angeles office of the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he was the head of litigation for the renowned firm...
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There is a very steep learning curve, even for someone as versed in constitutional law as Roberts is.
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We have this idealistic notion in this country that we can live in kind of splendid anonymity, we can walk around and be left alone. And this question really raises, in the post-9/11 era, the issue of whether that's really true anymore.
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Liberals, the moderates and conservatives on the bench have been feeling out Chief Justice Roberts to see ... what kinds of arguments appeal to him, what kind of person is he.
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She doesn't give much guidance to other courts in her rulings, there's a lack of consistency, distinctiveness. Often it seems her opinions are too narrow, reflecting only how it strikes just Justice O'Connor, what she personally thinks.
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She is arguably the most influential woman in the United States, ... Closed Chamber: An Inside Account of the Supreme Court.
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I think we can be pretty darn sure he's not another Scalia.
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Some of the things he has said can't be good news to conservatives,
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I think if, Kerry wins there's a reasonable chance that you might see Justice Stevens step down, ... And if Bush wins, I think there's a reasonable chance you'd see the chief step down. I think we're getting close to it.
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Most of the cases they work on are boring from a layman's point of view, but important, and ferocious, from an economic point of view.
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And then the question becomes, can the guidelines in general be maintained or will the guidelines be thrown out? And we then go back to the regime that existed before the guidelines under which judges had tremendous sentencing discretion. That's another big question in this case.
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This is a situation where, from the very moment the justices start back up in October, they're going to be very divided,
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There's a certain romanticism about the court's role in American life, the ability of the court to be a moral beacon for the country, that drives justices to take progressive stands.