Nan Aron
Nan Aron
Nan Aron is an American lawyer. Aron is the founder and president of Alliance for Justice, a liberal judicial advocacy group in the United States. Aron has been a noted opponent of conservative judicial nominees. She has called for President Barack Obama to be more aggressive in nominating liberals to the bench...
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It was an incomplete answer. He didn't give any indication to where it would lead him.
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It's kind of the eye of the hurricane. He's been sworn in, he's chief justice, we have a period of calm before the next storm.
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It reveals that he has pursued a very consistent agenda that favors government intrusion into our personal lives and sides with powerful interests over ordinary Americans.
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The existing record suggests that Judge Roberts lacks sufficient appreciation for how the law affects ordinary people.
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We'll start again next year and hopefully I'll be a little more attentive,
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Unfortunately, the balance of the court has now tilted dramatically to the right, placing our fundamental rights and freedoms in jeopardy.
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And I guess it would be fair to say I was shocked, I was very surprised by Leahy's vote yesterday,
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There's been extensive outreach to senators and their staffs by numerous people urging them to vote no on the nomination.
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His views are very much out of sync with civil rights, women's rights, privacy. Certainly reviewing so many of those memos and briefs and papers he authored makes one wonder whether he understands how the law affects ordinary people.
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History shows us that voters turned on Alan Dixon for his vote on Clarence Thomas.
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If transformed into the law of the land, Judge Roberts' legal views could produce a government with less power to protect ordinary people and give ordinary people less power to protect themselves from abuse by government and other powerful interests.
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He is doing a delicate dance trying to please everyone. At the end of the day people are going to walk out of this hearing room being uncomfortable.
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By failing to allay the concerns his record raised prior to the hearings, Judge Roberts simply has not met the heavy burden of proving that he warrants a lifetime appointment to the most powerful judgeship in the country.
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How the Democrats handle themselves will have an impact on how they're remembered by their constituents. I think certainly constituents remembered how some of their senators voted on the Clarence Thomas confirmation and punished some of them for their votes.