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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I think he could well vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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History shows us that voters turned on Alan Dixon for his vote on Clarence Thomas.
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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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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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When you practice with people, there's a desire to close ranks.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.