They need a win. With the exception of [the confirmation of Chief Justice John G.] Roberts, they haven't had a break all year. Just pulling off one of these would slow down the snowball a little.

I am angry - mad - at the Chief Justice, John Roberts.

It's hard to imagine a choice more similar to Chief Justice Rehnquist than John Roberts. They both love the law and they both are among a handful of the most intellectually accomplished legal minds.

The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

It was poetic justice for him. I told him he might get a chance to win it later.

I knew in advance what they were going to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that he was a threat to these rights. That he was out of the mainstream, and they said that before they had ever researched his record. Doesn't matter.