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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Everybody agrees there's an enormous problem, everybody agrees with the border security lines and there's general agreement that we have to craft a compromise.
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That looks to me as if it may be obstruction of the committee's activities.
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A lot of people have shifted their views, ... People do shift, so there may be an evolution of his thinking.
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A lot of things have happened since 1985,
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We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.
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We are proceeding in a matter of the utmost, utmost gravity -- the potential for impeachment of the president of the United States -- and I think American people will demand and are entitled to that kind of bipartisanship,
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When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, who'd overturn Roe versus Wade, I think that is unlikely, ... And I have said that bluntly during the course of the campaign, that Roe versus Wade was inviolate.
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We're not going to start these hearings until you're prepared. And she said November 7th she'd be ready to go.
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Would you think that Roe might be a super-duper precedent?
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We're going to have a vote on this one day soon.
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Institutionally, the court is on the spot as to the whole overtone of appearing to be too political or ideological.
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In our free society, anyone can speak out as they choose on any subject. I am concerned that the Roberts nomination, or others to follow, may provide an occasion for such advertising to get out of hand, ... The NARAL television advertisement is blatantly untrue and unfair. ...
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ill-suited to capture the nuance of oral arguments and the sustained attention of the American citizenry.
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I'll have greater confidence in your telling me I'm wrong when you have all the facts,