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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These decisions pose two major problems, ... A lack of stability or predictability in the law because the two cases, decided three years apart, are virtually indistinguishable; and, two, the court's judicial activism in functioning as a super legislature.
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There's nothing in his dissent which suggests disagreement with the underlying decision of Roe V. Wade,
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I think if we're to re-establish (the Congress') constitutional role, to control the purse strings, we've got to say that when it comes to local control versus a Washington straitjacket, the people of the United States want the education decisions made in the local school districts, not in the White House.
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When you have a decision which has been in effect for decades and people have come to rely upon it,
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There has been a generalization that justices like to retire at the end of a term so as not to disrupt the work of the court, ... if you were to have a 4-4 court, with its proclivity for being evenly divided, you wouldn't have decisions for the cutting edge of all the questions.
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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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I am opposed to anybody making a decision for you or me or anybody else about what health care plan we should have.
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The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.
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I think there needs to be a collegial, modest approach to try to bring the court together so that we have some idea of continuity and what these decisions mean and their staying power,
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The new chief justice will have his work cut out to try and bring consensus to the court, ... There is much to be done to move away from the 5-4 decisions of the court.
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the underlying decision in Roe. v Wade, but I'm sure it will be a subject of discussion at the hearings.
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I've not said that the vice president has done anything wrong, ... What I have said is there is a basis for (an) independent counsel.
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It would be quite a sacrifice for her, but she's prepared to do it if she is asked, ... By next June we'll know a lot more about Judge Roberts ... than we do today.
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It would take us less time to handle this trial than to handle the talk shows,