It's the 900-pound gorilla that's weightless. It's an empty symbol. It's almost as if the nominee is a hologram.

I think it's a symbol of the freedom of skiing at Brundage.

Rehnquist has been enormously influential in curbing, if not reversing, the Court's pro-criminal defendant rulings of the 1960s, in establishing state sovereignty decisions, and in questioning the scope of Congress's enumerated powers, for example, invalidating substantial portions of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act.

He has become good at figuring out how much he can get out of them without losing them.

No court is going to reach out with huge decisions when it is quite clearly in transition.

He doesn't seem to be very fond of them.