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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These documents would have shed critical light on Judge Roberts' record and judicial philosophy. But rather than respecting the co-equal role of the Senate in the confirmation process, the White House withheld vital information.
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Judge Roberts has advocated diminishing the role the courts play in enforcing individual rights and freedoms,
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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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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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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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We will win this nomination battle, but as in the past it's going to take a huge amount of effort by the entire community, everybody pitching in. In the end, I do think we'll prevail.
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Presidential standing is always a factor with any nomination that is so highly visible and so symbolic of a president's power, and I think it will be here.
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I think he could well vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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I think his statement is actually quite critical of Roberts, ... I have no idea.
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The President has laid down the gauntlet and the battle is now wide open.
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The problem was I was responsible for the fish,
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Given her sparse public record, it is unclear whether she has a basic working knowledge of the issues that the Supreme Court regularly confronts.
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No one is talking about filibuster at this point. It's much too early.
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With Roberts, there was an air of inevitability from the very beginning. This situation is completely different.