Thomas Goldstein Quotes

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. - Thomas Goldstein

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

We discovered the tape missing. - Thomas Goldstein

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. - Thomas Goldstein

The Supreme Court has never confronted the question of an American being held here [in the United States], or where you have a whole group of people who are being held in a U.S. base at one time without access to courts whatsoever. - Thomas Goldstein

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. - Thomas Goldstein

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

The nomination, unless it makes substantial progress, is in jeopardy. - Thomas Goldstein

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. - Thomas Goldstein

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. - Thomas Goldstein

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