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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Institutionally, the court is on the spot as to the whole overtone of appearing to be too political or ideological.
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One of the things that I talked to her about was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because there are a lot of complicated issues. And I said to her, 'You've got a pretty good road map in what went on with Chief Justice Roberts.
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resist, if not refuse to confirm, Supreme Court nominees who refuse to answer questions on fundamental issues.
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He did not give a definitive answer because obviously that question is going to be before the court again; it's going to be on the next term, ... But I think he - as they said in the old song, 'Kansas City,' he went about as far as he could go.
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In the context where the Supreme Court decides, really, the cutting-edge questions of our day
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You really wonder with all the tremendously important issues that the court faces ... that the woman's right to choose dominates the scene, but it does, ... That's the principal battle line which is present.
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Hearings for a Supreme Court nominee should not have a political tilt for either Republicans or Democrats, ... They should, in substantive fact and in perception, be for all Americans.
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Isn't there a lack of respect for Congress demonstrated by the Supreme Court, as Justice Scalia points out that it is 'ill advised' for the court to set itself up as 'taskmaster' to determine that Congress has done its 'homework'?
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The next chief justice will have the potential to change the court's image in the eyes of many as a superlegislature and to bring consensus to the court which has made a hallmark of 5-4 decisions, many of which are inexplicable.
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I'm concerned about the conferences of the justices which the chief will preside over, and about bringing the court together,
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If you have a sharp turn in the court you undercut reliance, expectation, and, as Roberts would say, stability,
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I think that some of the voting today was calculated to impact on the next nomination.
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If the president can find someone in Judge Roberts' mold, I think by putting up that nominee, he disarmed his opponents,
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It is unfair to start the hearings before she's ready,