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“close approach to solitude”: Garrow, “The Unlikely Center.”
CHAPTER 4: COLLISION COURSE
helped spark the Civil War: David G. Savage, “The Rescue of Roe v. Wade,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 13, 1992.
“decisions we do not like”: Lazarus, Closed Chambers, p. 471.
“Wow! Pretty extreme!”: Greenhouse, Becoming Justice Blackmun, p. 203.
a letter from a nun: Savage, “The Rescue of Roe v. Wade.”
“correctness and legitimacy”: Greenhouse, Becoming Justice Blackmun, p. 204.
unlikely jogging partners: Savage, “The Rescue of Roe v. Wade.”
“‘what I think it ought to mean!’”: Margaret Talbot, “Supreme Confidence,” New Yorker, March 28, 2005, p. 42.
correct for all time: Mark Tushnet, A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, p. 215.
He needed to “brood”: Terry Carter, “Crossing the Rubicon,” California Lawyer, Oct. 1992.
CHAPTER 5: BIG HEART
Cuomo faxed Clinton: George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human: A Political Education, pp. 167–68.
the Guinier nomination blew up: John F. Harris, The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, p. 60.
less sympathy than some judges: See http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/107/biography.
“answer will be nothing but yes”: Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, pp. 170–71. See also Henry J. Abraham, Justice, Presidents, and Senators, pp. 315–20.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been to women’s rights: Roger K. Newman, “President Clinton’s Supreme Court Appointments,” lecture, Hofstra University, Nov. 11, 2005.
he was the only person: David Remnick, “Negative Capability,” The New Yorker, Nov. 27, 1995, p. 44.
CHAPTER 6: EXILES RETURN?
witty speech Breyer had given: Newman, “President Clinton’s Supreme Court Appointments.”
“how awful you are?”: Ibid.
Clinton asked his staff to leave him alone: Ibid.
His distinguished service on the judiciary continued: See Morris Sheppard Arnold, “A Tribute to Richard S. Arnold,” Arkansas Law Review 58 (2005): 481, 482.
libertarian magazine: Douglas H. Ginsburg, “Delegation Running Riot,” Regulation 18, no. 1 (1995).
CHAPTER 7: WHAT SHALL BE ORTHODOX
“no other gods before me”: See discussion in Noah Feldman, Divided by God, pp. 151ff.
His law firm declared bankruptcy: Tony Mauro, “Jay Sekulow’s Golden Ticket,” Legal Times, Oct. 31, 2005.
“Wrong table”: Jeanne Cummings, “In Judge Battle, Mr. Sekulow Plays a Delicate Role,” Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2005.
various civic groups: Biskupic, Sandra Day O’Connor, pp. 282–86.
CHAPTER 8: WRITING SEPARATELY
Thomas required the new ones: Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher, Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas, p. 163.
still bedridden most of the time: Tony Mauro, “Decade after Confirmation, Thomas Becoming a Force on High Court,” Legal Times, Aug. 20, 2001.
his mother was struggling: Ibid., p. 39.
“condo on wheels”: Merida and Fletcher, Supreme Discomfort, p. 340.
“universally untrustworthy”: Diane Brady, “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks,” BusinessWeek, March 12, 2007.
would not appear on television morning news shows: David D. Kirkpatrick with Linda Greenhouse, “Memoir Deal Reported for Justice Thomas,” New York Times, Jan. 10, 2003.
$42,200 in gifts: Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage, “Justice Thomas Reports Wealth of Gifts,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 31, 2004.
CHAPTER 9: CARDS TO THE LEFT
Clinton always said he had no memory: Of course, it is possible that both Jones and Clinton were lying and that a consensual sexual encounter took place. See Jeffrey Toobin, A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President, p. 158.
In 1975, as Jeffrey Rosen first reported: Jeffrey Rosen, “Rehnquist the Great?” Atlantic Monthly, April 2005.
CHAPTER 10: THE YEAR OF THE ROUT
the riches he extracted: On Sekulow’s financial arrangements, see Mauro, “Jay Sekulow’s Golden Ticket.”
an anonymous informant slipped: On the history of “partial birth” legislation, see Chris Black, “The Partial-Birth Fraud,” American Prospect, Fall 2001.