Jan LaRue
Jan LaRue
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The greatest honor President Bush can give the Chief Justice is to nominate a successor committed to his legacy of shifting the balance of Court to the written Constitution, ... It's the only 'balance of the Court' that matters.
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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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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,
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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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We give Harriet Miers the benefit of the doubt because thus far, President Bush has selected nominees to the federal courts who are committed to the written Constitution. Whether we can support her will depend on what we learn from her record and the hearing process.
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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 are assured that the president will keep his promise to nominate a strict constructionist, ... undermine respect for life and family.
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It sounds like there's a lot of politics at play here.
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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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They're both at the top of just about everybody's list,
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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 regret that we couldn't come out of the box whole-heartedly endorsing a known nominee, ... that doesn't in and of itself mean she's the best qualified person to be nominated to the Supreme Court. There are so many known people who could have been nominated.