05/07/2009
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"It used to be the understanding of this body that elections have consequences, and you would expect the President who won the election to pick somebody of their philosophy."
"Brett is a judge's judge, someone doing his absolute best to follow the law rather than his policy preferences."
"You are probably going to get 55 votes, I do not know, 54 to 56 or 57."
"I certainly do not want you to have to lay out a test here in the abstract which might determine what your vote or your test would be in a case you have yet to see that may well come before the Suprem..."