Jan LaRue
Jan LaRue
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It sounds like he's being gracious. I mean, how could he get that wrong? It sounds funny to me,
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Whether we can support her will depend on what we learn from her record and the hearing process.
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We find it patronizing and hypocritical to focus on her faith in order to gain support for Miss Miers.
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I think we are going to see the kind of nominee we should have gotten in the first place: someone with a strong track record of conservative judicial philosophy. I'd be shocked if it's not.
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It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president has promised. The problem is that those of us who were looking for some tangible evidence of that have none, and we can't come out of the box supporting her.
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We do not doubt Miss Miers' faith in Christ ù we share it, ... We find it patronizing and hypocritical to focus on her faith in order to gain support for Miss Miers.
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We have lost a noble American who loved and served his country with great honor and distinction,
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The president got it right this time. We only wish he had done this on October 3rd. This judge has always been at the top of our list for the Supreme Court.
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It sounds like there's a lot of politics at play here.
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the benefit of the doubt because, thus far, President Bush has selected nominees to the federal courts who are committed to the written Constitution.
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You had four members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who suddenly found a right to same-sex marriage in the oldest written constitution still enforced in the world. That is a prime example of what we mean by judicial activism.
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disappointed it isn't someone who I can come right out of the box saying, 'Great, let's go.'
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We do not think there is anything she could say at her hearing that would satisfy our concerns.
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The opinions I've read show a circuit-court judge who recognizes what all the lower-court judges recognize, which is that they can't overrule the Supreme Court,