Richard Schiff credited as playing...
Toby Ziegler
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: [has just walked in on Toby meeting with Judge Mulready] Well this is a sight to see. One of the more unlikely meetings in the history of the Bartlett White House.
- Justice Christopher Mulready: [stands up to shake her hand] It's good to see you, Evie.
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: You too, Chris. I came to say goodbye, I wish I had a camera.
- Justice Christopher Mulready: Mr. Zeigler was trying to convince me the Defense of Marriage act is unconstitutional.
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: [chuckling] Oh, DOMA? He was trying to convince you?
- Toby Ziegler: What?
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: He doesn't need convincing.
- Toby Ziegler: Well I wasn't doing a particularly...
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: He's yanking your chain. He would never uphold DOMA. He might not love the idea of gay marriage, but he hates congressional overreaching, and Congress doesn't have the power to legislate marriage. The issue isn't privacy.
- Justice Christopher Mulready: Or equal protection.
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: It's enumerated powers. He'll have an easier time knocking down DOMA than I will.
- Justice Christopher Mulready: Lack of imagination on your part, if I may be so bold.
- Josh Lyman: Obviously we're impressed with your record.
- Toby Ziegler: Your work on the 14th Amendment in particular is the stuff that dreams were made of.
- Josh Lyman: But before anything else, we want to gauge your interest level, this would certainly be a lifestyle...
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: We can just chat.
- Josh Lyman: I'm sorry?
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: I hear you really went to bat for Erick Hayden.
- Josh Lyman: I wish we could have gotten him confirmed
- Toby Ziegler: Judge Lang, if the president...
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: Is he still teaching?
- Josh Lyman: Erick? Yeah. Um, again, if we...
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: The conservative anchor of the Court has just died, a young, brilliant thinker, who brought the right out of the closet and championed a whole conservative revival. You cannot replace Owen Brady with a woman who overturned a parental consent law, you'd be shishkababed and set aflame on the South Lawn. Two reporters, three reporters have walked by since we started. I'm window dressing, that's fine. I'm happy to help, but let's just chat about the weather.
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: Well I don't mind. But people wonder why the appellate system is so backed up. We shouldn't let them know this is how I spend my time.
- Toby Ziegler: Well, if you were less appealing...
- Chief Justice Evelyn Baker Lang: And the same to you, sir.
- Toby Ziegler: You were yanking my chain?
- Justice Christopher Mulready: You call me for a meeting with a democratic President in the middle of the night, are you really going to give me crap about yanking your chain?