Quotes by Neil Siegel

“It could be close. It is a wrenching issue. Its one of the most difficult decisions any family needs to make. Theres a lot of discomfort with having the government at any level get involved.”

“If he thinks thats OK, there are certainly other restrictions that hes going to be OK with. Hell make a decisive difference.”

“I dont think its clear at all the court will go with the health exception. Hes the swing vote now — he will be the new center of gravity going forward.”

“Its a rebuke to the Bush administration, but its not any great victory for one side or the other.”

“It is a way to win this case without having the court address the constitutionality of the parental notification provision and to ward off many otherwise effective future legal challenges, so restrictions can only be challenged as applied in a particular case. Its a way to not only win, but to win big.”

“Group dynamics obviously matter when nine people interact, and of course its impossible to know how this change will affect the court and Justice Ginsburg.”

“I dont know if the Supreme Court is going to want to be the first court to get into this dispute. It seems controversial and political.”