John Cornyn
John Cornyn
John Cornyn IIIis the senior United States Senator from Texas, serving since 2002. He is a member of the Republican Party and the current Senate Majority Whip for the 114th Congress. Cornyn previously served as Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee from 2007 to 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 February 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm confident they've been preparing for the possibility of Chief Justice Rehnquist retiring for quite some time, ... I can only assume they have considered their strategy and will have a nominee ready.
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If you think about it, the successor to Sandra Day O'Connor should objectively be a lot more controversial than the successor to Chief Justice Rehnquist, ... The successor to Rehnquist . . . won't change the balance of power on these hot-button issues as might Roberts' nomination.
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In my state, from the time ... the most hardened criminals are convicted of the most heinous crimes ... their case is reviewed by not only a jury of 12 of their peers but up to 23 different judges ... perhaps even more.
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It has to do with our suspicion and skepticism of government power being able to take private property.
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I think (a border fence) is futile because I don't think you can build a wall high enough or wide enough to keep people out of the country who have no hope or opportunity where they live,
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I just think it was a blind spot in the process of BRAC, but now maybe these developments, showing how in response to disaster, a natural disaster like Rita and Katrina, that it has an important role to play. Maybe this will help us make our case.
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I personally find that not only false but condescending and really inappropriate.
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If you pledge today to rule a certain way on an issue, how can parties to future cases possibly feel that they would ever have a fair day in court? ... Don't take the bait. Do not head down that road.
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If you've got air conditioning, clean water, toilets that work where you are, don't come back to Beaumont,
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In the end, it was clear that this has turned into a very tough, very nasty process, and you have got to really want it to be able to submit yourself to all of this.
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Chief Justice Rehnquist restored sanity to our criminal justice system, respect for our nation's allocation of power between the states and the federal government, and freedom in the public square to people of faith.
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clears the way for a more efficient and lower-cost delivery of this next-generation military aircraft.
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chose not the cut-and- run option but the stay-and-fight option -- and to win -- and then to bring our troops home as soon as possible.
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By the time the process is over, she will have been ... poked and prodded enough to satisfy even the most skeptical mind.