have the law on

He is boastfully eager to fire anyone who tells him no, and it helps him enormously that this time he will have the law on his side when he deploys it for personal and political gain.

“We have the law on our side, we have the investment portfolio on our side and we’ll go ahead and implement the program,” he said.

“It doesn’t say they may or can consider, they must. And so we have the law on our side.”

"If you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. If you have the law on your side, argue the law. If you have neither, you pound the table. Well, this is the judicial equivalent of pounding the table."

“If you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. If you have the law on your side, argue the law. If you have neither, you pound the table. Well, this is the judicial equivalent of pounding the table.”