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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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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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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It reveals that he has pursued a very consistent agenda that favors government intrusion into our personal lives and sides with powerful interests over ordinary Americans.
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No one is talking about filibuster at this point. It's much too early.
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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.
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By failing to allay the concerns his record raised prior to the hearings, Judge Roberts simply has not met the heavy burden of proving that he warrants a lifetime appointment to the most powerful judgeship in the country.
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His views are very much out of sync with civil rights, women's rights, privacy. Certainly reviewing so many of those memos and briefs and papers he authored makes one wonder whether he understands how the law affects ordinary people.
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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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When you practice with people, there's a desire to close ranks.
shows parting
It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.
bases bloggers
Speaking to bloggers on a daily basis.
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The problem was I was responsible for the fish,
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The President has laid down the gauntlet and the battle is now wide open.
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The existing record suggests that Judge Roberts lacks sufficient appreciation for how the law affects ordinary people.