Debra L. Ness is the former president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. She has previously worked for the Service Employees International Union and National Abortion Rights Action League. (wikipedia)
It is more important than ever to come up with a consensus candidate everyone can respect.
It's hard to get people to understand what the court means in their daily lives.
That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would be OK, unless you proved you were the more qualified candidate.
John Roberts is no longer a blank slate, he has an extensive record and that record is far outside the mainstream.
John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's rights.
This vote is painful proof that a majority of senators will not stand up for women's rights, civil rights and our right to privacy when it counts the most.
We hope that he won't kowtow to the far right. It would be very divisive for this nation.
It's unbelievable how poorly informed we are, how little information we have to go on.
We must oppose his confirmation as chief justice even more strenuously because, in that post, he would have even greater power to shape the direction of our courts, our laws and our lives.
In the end, he refused to commit to upholding the core principles of Roe.
