online.wsj.com - 6/3/2009
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The following is from then-Sen. Barack Obama's floor statement explaining why he would vote against confirming Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (September 2005): . . . [T]he decision with respect to Judge Roberts' nomination has not been an easy one for me to make. As some of you know, I ...
primebuzz.kcstar.com - 5/28/2009
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Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts has made up Sen.
Pat Roberts Sen. Pat Roberts his mind on Judge...
Sonia Sotomayor. Put him down as a "no." (And he may be the first GOPer to go on record opposing her). Chris Judge Sonia Sotomayor Judge Sonia Sotomayor Stigall on ...
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Roberts decides on Sotomayor: He's a "no" ...
cafehayek.com - 6/2/2009
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The AP reports (HT: Drudge): White House spokesman
Robert Gibbs is declining to say what it cost...
for President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, to eat dinner and take in a play in New York over the weekend. Asked...
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The more the better, right? (by Russell Roberts)
talkleft.com - 6/5/2009
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talkleft.com —
I wonder if this obvious fact will now
break through to the Media. I have written over...
and over that Chief Justice Roberts has proven to be the most brazen judicial activist the Court has seen in some time. Now conservative legal commentator Stuart ...
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Stuart Taylor: Conservative Roberts Court Is Judicially ...
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Policy Maker Or Neutral Legal Umpire?
Right Wing News —
W hich of those descriptions in the title would best describe your understanding of a Supreme Court Justice? If you wonder what President Obama wants in a Supreme Court Justice, take a look at this excerpt from his speech explaining why he couldn't vote for Justice Roberts. He's describing that 95% of the cases before the court will find all justices coming to the same conclusions. However, it is the 5% that concerned Obama and determined his inability to vote for Roberts. Here's what he said: In those cases, adherence to precedent and rules of construction and interpretation ...
Dems Running Out of Excuses For Sotomayor’s Racist Rants
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... Explaining his vote against Roberts on the Senate floor in 2005, then Senator Obama made it clear that political and philosophical differences were more important than the nominees qualifications. In doing so he proved his worth to the liberal base of the Democrat Party and from there launched his successful bid for the presidency. ...
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althouse.blogspot.com 3/27/2009 — "Roberts didn’t tell us the truth. At least Alito told us who he was. But we’re stuck with those two young men, and we’ll try to change by having some moderates in the federal courts system as time goes on — I think that will happen." *** 1. ...
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