But the time factor would make that kind of ruling a victory for [Texas Gov. George W.] Bush,

A trial is like a jig-saw puzzle and closing argument is when the lawyers put the pieces together.

No other state would impose this kind of sentence.

This is a docket that already has an extraordinary number of potential blockbuster cases. It will give us an early sense of who John Roberts is.

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

It's a year when it is going to be particularly difficult to make predictions.