Thomas Goldstein Quotations

There is clear repudiation of the government's absolute position that the courts have no role. The Supreme Court did offer the executive a real change to balance how much procedure the detainees would get, it's not that they have all the rights of a U.S. citizen in every court case, but it does absolutely reject the president's claim that it is only his choice who gets to go to court and when.

More broadly, this case is really a bellwether for where the Supreme Court is going to go in terms of limiting Roe v. Wade, and potentially eventually overruling it.

perpetuate paralyzing uncertainty that allows them to continue selling their branded drugs at monopoly prices.

I feel terrible at the frustration our customers are having on top of getting this letter.

I think what every lawyer wants is a judge, whether conservative or liberal, who, when it comes to the job of judging, will call things straight and adhere to the rule of law.

Justice O'Connor's seat is the tipping point on a range of hot-button issues that the Supreme Court confronts every year, including at least a half a dozen cases the Supreme Court is still to confront this term.

William Rehnquist was well respected by all his colleagues. John Roberts seemingly has that, plus the added strength of his open personality.

The president really would need to replace Justice O'Connor with a woman.

Big business has been a huge supporter of the president. It's reasonable to expect that they're going to get a nominee that remains pro-business.

The Supreme Court explained to universities how it is that they can take race into account in admitting students, and it does lay a road map for the next 25 years on how they'll do that,

people the business community is going to be extremely happy about.

As you can imagine, I personally am just sick that we missed this thing by one month.

The nomination, unless it makes substantial progress, is in jeopardy,

It was like they scheduled the fireworks and everybody came and suddenly they were canceled.

The federal government really has tried to use the concerns of terrorism in the post-9/11 world to expand its powers and to keep the courts out and say no, the police, the FBI, the CIA need substantially greater discretion,

In a narrow sense, the public is very concerned about parental notification and other restrictions on the right to abortion,

If you're on U.S. soil, do you have a right to get into U.S. courts and have a lawyer?

You can't ever label this court as totally conservative. It's always hard to put the court in a box of a particular label.

The cases the court has heard in the past, particularly the ones around World War II, do point to some extent in the government's favor,

The letters just started going out in the last day or so. Up until today, we still see no signs of misuse of the data. Had we discovered earlier that the data was being misused, we would have come out with an announcement much faster.