We need to be careful here. This is a nominee who could shift the balance of the court, and thus the laws of the nation, for decades to come.

This is the time for a consensus nominee,

You can't have a campaign for a nominee based on whispers and winks.

We are confident that after careful consideration of these issues that this court, and any other court, would say that there is no basis for the extraordinary breach of the attorney-client privilege by allowing the government to call Mr. Carter to produce documents or to be a witness against his client.

the most qualified nominee who has ever been put up for a Supreme Court vacancy.

It is sad that the president felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide Americans instead of choosing a nominee in the mold of Sandra Day O'Connor, who would unify us,