Jan LaRue Quotations

Whether we can support her will depend on what we learn from her record and the hearing process.

We find it patronizing and hypocritical to focus on her faith in order to gain support for Miss Miers.

If their bill does become law it does not limit pornographers to one domain.

He has always ranked near the top for us.

He should not become the new high bar.

Judge Roberts deserves overwhelming bi-partisan confirmation by the Senate. Only those willing to jump off a political cliff by joining hands with the die-hard abortion, gay rights and environmental groups can be expected to oppose this supremely qualified nominee.

I think we are going to see the kind of nominee we should have gotten in the first place: someone with a strong track record of conservative judicial philosophy. I'd be shocked if it's not.

It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president has promised. The problem is that those of us who were looking for some tangible evidence of that have none, and we can't come out of the box supporting her.

We do not doubt Miss Miers' faith in Christ ù we share it, ... We find it patronizing and hypocritical to focus on her faith in order to gain support for Miss Miers.

The president got it right this time. We only wish he had done this on October 3rd. This judge has always been at the top of our list for the Supreme Court.

We have lost a noble American who loved and served his country with great honor and distinction,

The president should name the best-qualified and proven constitutionalist to replace O'Connor as soon as Judge Roberts is confirmed, regardless of sex, race or ethnicity. The American people will decide the consequences of partisan politicians trying to intimidate the president into surrendering his constitutional duty.

The opinions I've read show a circuit-court judge who recognizes what all the lower-court judges recognize, which is that they can't overrule the Supreme Court,

We give Harriet Miers the benefit of the doubt because thus far, President Bush has selected nominees to the federal courts who are committed to the written Constitution. Whether we can support her will depend on what we learn from her record and the hearing process.

You had four members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who suddenly found a right to same-sex marriage in the oldest written constitution still enforced in the world. That is a prime example of what we mean by judicial activism.

We are assured that the president will keep his promise to nominate a strict constructionist, ... undermine respect for life and family.

We do not think there is anything she could say at her hearing that would satisfy our concerns.

disappointed it isn't someone who I can come right out of the box saying, 'Great, let's go.'

They're both at the top of just about everybody's list,

It sounds like there's a lot of politics at play here.

It sounds like he's being gracious. I mean, how could he get that wrong? It sounds funny to me,

the benefit of the doubt because, thus far, President Bush has selected nominees to the federal courts who are committed to the written Constitution.

I regret that we couldn't come out of the box whole-heartedly endorsing a known nominee, ... that doesn't in and of itself mean she's the best qualified person to be nominated to the Supreme Court. There are so many known people who could have been nominated.

I am not ready to bring out the pom-poms and start the cheering. I was hoping I could. I think a lot of great r?sum?s were set aside here, and I am not sure for the right reason.

The greatest honor President Bush can give the Chief Justice is to nominate a successor committed to his legacy of shifting the balance of Court to the written Constitution, ... It's the only 'balance of the Court' that matters.

The constant bringing up of her faith is inappropriate. No one's giving us any real information about her. We're in an echo chamber.