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.

I really think that he's somebody who will be regarded in hindsight as having had a tremendous influence on the course of constitutional law.

I really think that he (Rehnquist) is somebody who will be regarded in hindsight as having had a tremendous influence on the course of constitutional law.

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.