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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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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History shows us that voters turned on Alan Dixon for his vote on Clarence Thomas.
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I think he could well vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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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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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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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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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.