“It's very difficult for Specter to thread the needle, because of all the obligations he has, ... There's substantial pressure on him because of the issue of reproductive freedom.”
“It's always unpredictable saying what the docket will look like in 10 years, ... It could be high-tech, biotech. ... If it were present-day issues, you'd have to take it case by case.”
“It was the intellectual elite of the conservative movement that expressed the most concern, not the religious conservatives or the business conservatives.”
“The witness whose testimony was struck was their first and perhaps their strongest witness, and so that could make it difficult going forward on the case.”