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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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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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.
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The fight continues. This is a step-by-step process. The senators are coming back to town, and they have got to look at that record.
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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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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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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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Judge Roberts has advocated diminishing the role the courts play in enforcing individual rights and freedoms,
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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.