"Under no circumstances should the judiciary become the handmaiden of the executive."
"Mr. Halbrook, you wrote the brief on behalf of 55 Senators in the Heller case and your view, I guess, was accepted."
"President Bush actually relied on the historic interpretation."
"Just because you may like the direction somebody bent the Constitution this year in this case does not mean you are going to like it in the future."
"I am not sure I am comfortable with a judge who thinks things are just a series of perspectives."
"But is it not true that when the Constitution was written, it made provision for the habeas corpus, that it would never interpret it as applying to enemy combatants that were captured on the battlefie..."
"I think the foreign law matter is a big deal to me."
"Even the dissent had a different standard."
"If you respect the Constitution, if you clearly respect it, you will enforce it as it is written."
"I think you're calling us to a higher level of discussion on these issues because they go to the core of who we are as Americans."
"I think it was in violation of the rule, in my judgment as a practicing lawyer."