Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specterwas an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Specter was a Democrat from 1951 to 1965, then a Republican from 1965 until 2009, when he switched back to the Democratic Party. First elected in 1980, he represented his state in the Senate for 30 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 February 1930
CountryUnited States of America
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When you talk about judges who would change the right of a woman to choose, who'd overturn Roe versus Wade, I think that is unlikely, ... And I have said that bluntly during the course of the campaign, that Roe versus Wade was inviolate.
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We're facing a daunting workload with a very heavy backlog of controversial and contested judicial nominees.
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We shouldn't be playing second fiddle to South Korea or anyone else,
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was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because of there are a lot of complicated issues.
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Would you think that Roe might be a super-duper precedent?
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There is a great mystique of the Senate Caucus Room, ... We are going to open up the hearings there.
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There is a keen interest in many quarters on concluding before Thanksgiving , and that's a fine target if it can be accomplished, ... But we're going to do it right. We're not going to do it fast.
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What I'm referring to are all of the forces which are at work out here commanding media attention and commanding public attention, ... There's been more controversy before this nominee has uttered a formal word than I have ever heard.
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We're going to have a vote on this one day soon.
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There are some losses that the president has sustained, but by and large, I think that the president has won.
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There is a possibility of a third vacancy with Justice Stevens, that has been rumored, ... He is 85, but in good health. But if that comes in the next year -- with three new justices -- a shift in the court. And that's a problem for both the right and the left.
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There is no doubt about the value of investigative reporting to the public interests in exposing corruption, malfeasance, misconduct, waste ... there are weighty considerations on law enforcement, on their point of view, and national security interests. All of those factors have to be taken into account.
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There is no doubt that this is inappropriate.
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There is a little different approach in confirmation of the chief justice, ... I'm concerned about the conferences, about bringing the court together.