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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In most cases, a candidate enjoys a honeymoon period after the nomination.
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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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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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With Roberts, there was an air of inevitability from the very beginning. This situation is completely different.
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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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No one is talking about filibuster at this point. It's much too early.
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Next week, the press, the American people will begin to hear a very different story about his record, his experiences, some of the judgments he's made.
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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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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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It's now clear given the context of this nomination there is no one worse. This nominee, who has anchored the extremist position on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is someone whose ideology does present a real problem and real questions.