Nan Aron Quotations

No one is talking about filibuster at this point. It's much too early.

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.

Given her sparse public record, it is unclear whether she has a basic working knowledge of the issues that the Supreme Court regularly confronts.

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.

He is doing a delicate dance trying to please everyone. At the end of the day people are going to walk out of this hearing room being uncomfortable.

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.

History shows us that voters turned on Alan Dixon for his vote on Clarence Thomas.

I think he could well vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

I think his statement is actually quite critical of Roberts, ... I have no idea.

Judge Roberts has advocated diminishing the role the courts play in enforcing individual rights and freedoms,

The President has laid down the gauntlet and the battle is now wide open.

The problem was I was responsible for the fish,

Unfortunately, the balance of the court has now tilted dramatically to the right, placing our fundamental rights and freedoms in jeopardy.

The existing record suggests that Judge Roberts lacks sufficient appreciation for how the law affects ordinary people.

We'll start again next year and hopefully I'll be a little more attentive,

When you practice with people, there's a desire to close ranks.

With Roberts, there was an air of inevitability from the very beginning. This situation is completely different.

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.

These documents would have shed critical light on Judge Roberts' record and judicial philosophy. But rather than respecting the co-equal role of the Senate in the confirmation process, the White House withheld vital information.

Presidential standing is always a factor with any nomination that is so highly visible and so symbolic of a president's power, and I think it will be here.

And I guess it would be fair to say I was shocked, I was very surprised by Leahy's vote yesterday,

There's been extensive outreach to senators and their staffs by numerous people urging them to vote no on the nomination.

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.

It's now clear given the context of this nomination there is no one worse. This nominee, who has anchored the extremist position on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is someone whose ideology does present a real problem and real questions.

It's kind of the eye of the hurricane. He's been sworn in, he's chief justice, we have a period of calm before the next storm.

It was an incomplete answer. He didn't give any indication to where it would lead him.

In most cases, a candidate enjoys a honeymoon period after the nomination.

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.

How the Democrats handle themselves will have an impact on how they're remembered by their constituents. I think certainly constituents remembered how some of their senators voted on the Clarence Thomas confirmation and punished some of them for their votes.

Speaking to bloggers on a daily basis.

Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.

It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.

The fight continues. This is a step-by-step process. The senators are coming back to town, and they have got to look at that record.

a more predictable legal environment for businesses, because of its anti-regulatory orientation and its focus on economic costs and benefits rather than 'abstract' notions of right and wrong.