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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There's going to be a great national debate on this subject.
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I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nomination. I say that because, bubbling just below the surface was a lot of frustration in the hearing that we just concluded.
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When you deal in constitutional law, you're dealing in some very esoteric complicated subjects that require a great deal of background. And that kind of background doesn't come unless you are in the field or unless you're really studying it.
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When you deal in constitutional law, you're dealing in some very esoteric, complicated subjects that require a great deal of background, ... The jurisprudence is very complicated, and I will be pressing her very hard on these issues.
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There is a great mystique of the Senate Caucus Room, ... We are going to open up the hearings there.
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I'll have greater confidence in your telling me I'm wrong when you have all the facts,
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I have raised a certain cautionary signal, that I believe the next nomination is going to be a great deal more contentious than the Roberts nomination,
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Chief Justice Roberts has great potential for the future to bring a consensus to the court, to have a better recognition of congressional authority and, as he put it, to understand the Constitution responding to the changes in the ages and responding to societal conditions.
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Chief Justice Rehnquist's death marks the passing of a great American,
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I do see a great deal of popular and Congressional dissatisfaction with the judicial activism; and, at a minimum, the Senate's determination to confirm new justices who will respect Congress' constitutional role,
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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,
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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.