The Oath (50 page)

  
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“and have them all over”:
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/oconnor_lawyers_judges_need_to_wake_up_to_judicial_funding_threat_prep_for_/
.

  
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call meant that he had died:
http://www.lvrj.com/news/robocall-mishap-shows-nevadans-dont-want-any-questions-at-1-a-m—105738278.html?ref=278
.

  
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“So forget it. It’s over!”:
Jeffrey Rosen, “Why I Miss Sandra Day O’Connor,” July 1, 2011,
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/91146/sandra-day-o-connor-supreme-court-alito
.

  
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“It’s not always positive”:
Joan Biskupic, “O’Connor Says Rulings Being
‘Dismantled,’ ” Jan. 5, 2010,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2009-10-05-sandra-day-oconnor_N.htm
.

  
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laying out the absurdities of contemporary confirmation hearings:
Elena Kagan, “Confirmation Messes, Old and New,” 62
University of Chicago Law Review
919 (1995),
http://lawreview.uchicago.edu/archive/Front%20Page/Kagan/ConfirmationMessesOldAndNew.pdf
.

  
2
“I know it when I see it”:
Jacobellis v. Ohio
, 378 U.S. 164, 197 (1964) (Stewart, J., concurring).

  
1
“their belief in citizen activism”:
Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson,
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
, p. 53.

  
2
“minimize the risk of another monarchy”:
Glenn Beck,
The Original Argument
, p. xxv.

  
3
“in academia claim it to mean”:
Mark R. Levin,
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
, pp. 57, 60.

  
4
family prominent in Republican politics:
Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson,
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
, pp. 144–45.

  
5
“And you pay a penalty if you don’t”:
Quoted in Paul Starr,
Remedy and Reaction
, p. 87.

  
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unless there was a mandate:
Starr,
Remedy and Reaction
, pp. 87–88.

  
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the conservative Heritage Foundation:
The plan was created by Stuart Butler and Edmund Haislmaier. See
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576641190920152366.html
.

  
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repeated his support for the idea as recently as 2005:
Josh Hicks, “Newt Gingrich’s Changing Stance on Health-Care Mandates,” Dec. 12, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/newt-gingrichs-changing-stance-on-health-care-mandates-fact-checker-biography/2011/12/09/gIQAVl0lkO_blog.html
.

  
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“Constitutional Implications of an ‘Individual Mandate’ in Health Care Reform”:
See
http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/detail/constitutional-implications-of-an-individual-mandate-in-health-care-reform
.

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translating the Urbanowicz-Smith article into more colloquial language:
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Mandate Questioned,”
Washington Post
, Aug. 22, 2009,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103033.html
.

  
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Crow who made the $500,000 contribution to Liberty Central:
Kenneth P. Vogel, Marin Cogan, and John Bresnahan, “Justice Thomas’s Wife Virginia Thomas Now a Lobbyist,”
Politico
, Feb. 4, 2011,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/48812.html
; Mike McIntire, “Friendship of Justice and Magnate Puts Focus on Ethics,”
New York Times
, June 18, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/us/politics/19thomas.html?pagewanted=all
.

  
2
who are leading benefactors of the Tea Party movement:
Eric Lichtblau, “Common Cause Asks Court about Thomas Speech,”
New York Times
, Feb. 14, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/us/politics/15thomas.html
. The circumstances of the appearances by Thomas and Scalia at the Koch brothers’ event are not clear. In his financial disclosure statement, Thomas listed reimbursement for a Federalist Society event at the time and place of the Koch event.

  
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“price to pay today for standing in defense of your Constitution”:
The audiotape of this speech was first disclosed by
Politico
. Kenneth P. Vogel, “Defiant Clarence Thomas Fires Back,”
Politico
, Feb. 27, 2011,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50277.html
.

  
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“He does not believe in stare decisis, period”:
Ken Foskett,
Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas
, pp. 281–82.

  
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“the perversion of the Constitution took off during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt”:
Kate Zernike,
Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America
, p. 70.

  
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his speech to raise money for the
Spectator
would have been inappropriate:
On Alito’s speeches for the
Spectator
, see Lee Fang, “Exclusive: Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito Dismisses His Profligate Right-Wing Fundraising as ‘Not Important,’ ” Nov. 10, 2010,
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2010/11/10/129395/sam-alito-republican-fundraiser/
. See also
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2010/11/alito-and-ethics.html
.

  
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“the Court will accept that judgment”:
John Q. Barrett, “
Wickard v. Filburn
(1942),”
http://www.stjohns.edu/media/3/638cd994e8484fd3bdb841f31b11952f.pdf?d=201
.

  
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sweeping the hallways:
Nina Totenberg, profile of Donald Verrilli, NPR,
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/22/148947199/the-man-behind-the-defense-of-obamas-health-law
.

  
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“you can make people buy broccoli”:
For a history of the broccoli example in the health care case, see James B. Stewart, “How Broccoli Landed on Supreme Court Menu,”
New York Times
, June 14, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/business/how-broccoli-became-a-symbol-in-the-health-care-debate.html?pagewanted=all
.

  
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“Some might consider the change trivial”:
Stevens,
Five Chiefs
, p. 212.

  
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he thought Congress had exceeded its powers under the commerce clause in creating the individual mandate:
In addition to my own reporting, I relied on the following sources in my account of the Court’s deliberations: Jan Crawford, “Roberts Switched Views to Uphold Health Care Law,” July 1, 2012,
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162–57464549/roberts-switched-views-to-uphold-health-care-law/?tag=contentMain;contentBody
; Paul Campos, “Roberts Wrote Both Obamacare Opinions,”
Salon
, July 3, 2012,
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/03/roberts_wrote_both_obamacare_opinions/
. See also
http://www.volokh.com/2012/07/03/so-now-we-have-supreme-court-leaks-disagreeing-with-supreme-court-leaks/
;
http://www.volokh.com/2012/07/03/more-on-the-supreme-court-leak/
.

  
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“a little bit up in the air”:
Quoted at
http://www.volokh.com/2012/07/03/more-on-the-supreme-court-leak/
.

  
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“changing the relation between the citizen and the federal government”:
Jan Crawford first made this connection. See
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57464549/roberts-switched-views-to-uphold-health-care-law/?tag=contentMain;contentBody
.

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