Changing Speeds While most Americans savor their last days of summer, Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats are gearing up to ask John Roberts tough questions about his judicial philosophy at his confirmation hearing next week. We need to be sure this institution is in the mainstream of American thinking, ... What we need to do is ask the obvious questions.
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If he picks a candidate who clearly satisfies the most extreme, radical element of the Republican Party, that candidate is not going to reflect the values of America and there will be a real fight in the committee and on the floor of the Senate,
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a conservative with an agenda or a conservative who will be open-minded.
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He wants to work with people around the world, and he couldn't work with people in his own office. And he's supposed to be open, as our man at the U.N., to ideas from other people. And he's been a real tyrant when it came to people he worked with, who disagreed with him. This man doesn't have the temperament for this job.
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Some of the opinions that he's handed down are controversial decisions deciding that the Family and Medical Leave Act did not apply to state employees authorizing a strip search in a situation involving a mother and her 10-year-old daughter questions involving the rights of privacy,
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Sen. John Kerry , D-Mass., said Bush continues to invent a false link between the war in Iraq and the tragedy of Sept. 11. ... has offered America a false choice, between resolve and retreat.
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