Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specterwas an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented his state in the Senate for 30 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the committee's activities.
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The balance of power is not being maintained in America today, ... The Supreme Court is interpreting the Constitution in derogation of congressional authority.
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It's more than executive privilege, ... It's really lawyer-client privilege.
It just couldn't be done, ... We have to do it right. We can't do it fast.
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It's an opportunity to have a different approach of collegiality, ... I argued a case in the Supreme Court a few years back and Chief Justice Rehnquist ran a stopwatch, interrupted in mid-sentence. The word is he was looking for a way to interrupt somebody in the middle of the word 'if.'
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It's going to depend on how well she does. If she makes her case, she can be confirmed.
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It's going to be a battle but I think we have a realistic chance of winning.
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It's a restraint of trade for them to do that, and the thought crosses my mind, it might be a violation of antitrust laws,
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I want to know what the truth is,
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I want to accommodate people as best as I could.
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They can ask him what his views are on those subjects, and whether they represent his views today, ... They've got a lot of paper to confront him with.
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It naturally raises cynicism when you have so many 5-4 decisions from our Supreme Court and 4-3 decisions out of the Florida Supreme Court and that is not healthy, ... But our republic will survive.
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It is up to the congressional hearings to make a detailed estimation as to the accuracy of representations made by HHS as to robust, viable and diverse lines, ... bovine serum.
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There is a little different approach in confirmation of the chief justice, ... I'm concerned about the conferences, about bringing the court together.