Clarence Thomas
Related This is going to be the most important, most controversial Supreme Court confirmation battle since R... RALPH NEAS America can't afford a Supreme Court justice -- let alone a chief justice -- with Roberts' record of... ELI PARISER CHUCK SCHUMER The Supreme Court will embark upon a new era in its history - the Roberts era. BILL FRIST [Rep. Alcee Hastings ( news , bio , voting record ), a Democrat from Florida who was elected to Cong... ALCEE HASTINGS Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts ... RON FOURNIER Justice Thomas, my old boss, got 52 votes. Justice (Antonin) Scalia got 98 votes, ... But Justice Th... WENDY LONG It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duti... JAY ALAN SEKULOW As I reviewed the number of documents about John Roberts’ record, it is imperative that there is i... SHEILA JACKSON LEE [But Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who had been among the IRS' critics for not raising the rate, sa... CHARLES SCHUMER ARLEN SPECTER MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF NANCY KEENAN Judge Roberts has earned the nation's confidence, and I'm pleased to announce I will nominate him to... MR BUSH The vote shows that a strong, unapologetic, judicial conservative in the mold of Justices Antonin Sc... WENDY LONG We're a bit surprised the court took this case, but we have a new court with Judge Roberts. M. REED HOPPER I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State. BRIAN HIGGINS What that means is that Judge Roberts is guaranteed an up or down vote and he is also guaranteed to ... GLORIA BORGER the job of a Supreme Court justice ... is to make precedent. BILL SAMMON JOHN EDWARDS GILLIAN JACOBS John is genuinely conservative. He's also a nice guy and very smart and would be a very effective (S... CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT Judge Roberts as chief justice threatens decades of a federal court system tipped against equality. JOE SOLMONESE ANN COULTER To say that Roberts is hostile to these women because he opposed these radical initiatives simply de... JENNIFER BRACERAS Women who accuse men, particularly powerful men, of harassment are often confronted with the reality... ANITA HILL Justice Rehnquist went to the Supreme Court in 1972, at a time of ascendant judicial activism. BOYDEN GRAY Justice Rehnquist went to the Supreme Court in 1972, at a time of ascendant judicial activism. C. BOYDEN GRAY ARLEN SPECTER We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens... JAY ALAN SEKULOW One Supreme Court justice went to law school after he was appointed to bone up on the law, ALLAN WOLF We must use a judicial, rather than a political, standard to evaluate Judge Roberts' fitness for the... ORRIN HATCH CLIFF STEARNS There is no information to indicate she meets the high bar necessary for the next justice on the Sup... ELI PARISER We thought of her with Barbra Streisand, Barbara Boxer, Rob Reiner, Charles Schumer, even. Now I see... CHRIS MATTHEWS With the Charles Schumer bill possibly being voted on by the end of this month, now may be a good ti... ASHLEY DAVIES THOMAS A. EDISON I'm sure a sitting Supreme Court justice believes that providing some final closure on all these leg... LANNY DAVIS We find this Supreme Court nominee unqualified and her record troubling. BEVERLY LAHAYE LINDSEY GRAHAM A.A. MILNE A.A. MILNE When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights ... TERRI SEWELL We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL People like Charles Taylor who have committed crimes against this country must face justice before t... KANJI DARAMY You really ought to think twice before you appoint a staff member to a position like Supreme Court j... LEON PANETTA Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do... BENNIE THOMPSON Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other ... DASHIELL HAMMETT It's a victory for the government in a narrow sense, because their strategy was to keep the Supreme ... JOSEPH ONEK It is obvious that members of the Senate on both sides of the aisle really are troubled by the way t... BARRY FRIEDMAN CHARLES BUKOWSKI The time in our country's history has come where our Supreme Court needs to better reflect the diver... ALAN VARELA In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowl... SUSAN QUINN KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON It's definitely a new trend to see this kind of overt political campaigning on behalf of a Supreme C... ROBERT BATEY STEVEN MAGEE There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Cour... CLIFF SLOAN WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT KARL ROVE It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Sena... MITCH MCCONNELL Like Justice Thomas during his confirmation hearing, Judge Roberts said there is a right to privacy ... MARCIA GREENBERGER JOHN CORNYN To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme C... NOAH FELDMAN It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president... JAN LARUE In fact, his answers combined with his record can only lead us to the conclusion that the confirmati... KAREN PEARL GILLIAN FLYNN It is very possible before the Human Life Amendment gets to the Supreme Court that another justice m... DAVID ROGERS A.E. SAMAAN CASS SUNSTEIN CASS SUNSTEIN The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the s... RALPH G. NEAS ARLEN SPECTER Warning: Contains old friends, old enemies, a dramatic cat rescue, soft drink references and a lot o... K.A. MITCHELL JOHN DONNE HENRY JAMES Every American is going to be reminded in these hearings that every vote on the Supreme Court matter... LARRY SABATO We're awaiting a news conference at the bottom of the hour. New York City Police- CHRIS MATTHEWS [Former Chief Justice Earl] Warren understood the impact of separate but equal on generations of bot... TED KENNEDY This confirmation is also a victory for the nominee, President Bush, and, most of all, the U.S. Sena... SPENCER ABRAHAM JOHN ROBERTS President Bush has nominated John Roberts the man, and America has got to know John Roberts the man,... MIKE DEWINE THURGOOD MARSHALL They can't file a new impeachment complaint in July because they still have a pending appeal in the ... ROMULO MACALINTAL In the way of crop losses, theres some localized areas that had losses, but on a widespread basis, w... GARY ADAMS CONRAD BLACK We're picking a Supreme Court justice here, not a Sunday school teacher. President Bush and his alli... BARRY LYNN DAVID LETTERMAN [At the same briefing Thursday at which McClellan challenged Roberts, he lit into Hearst columnist H... SCOTT MCCLELLAN The new Roberts court has sent a powerful and compelling message and that message is we don't give a... BARBARA BECNEL NEIL GORSUCH Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called m... FRED F. FIELDING Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and cree... LEWIS BLACK We're definitely approaching the Texas model. We just had an execution a month ago. And I'll be back... BARBARA BECNEL CHARLES BUKOWSKI Justice O'Connor loves the court as an institution. And she was probably pleased to have to the oppo... ANDREW MCBRIDE For way too long, the Supreme Court has been handing down decisions that people of faith cannot acce... ZELL MILLER Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise,... AMY KLOBUCHAR Sen. Clinton is always honored when her hard work day in and day out for the people of New York is r... PHILIPPE REINES Her voting record is primarily of support of the Patriot Act, suspending of due process, support for... MARCY WINOGRAD
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If he is a Rehnquist, that would not be a cause for exultation in my book, but it would not be a cau... 
As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush's nominees in the Judiciary Commit... 
I have lost every respect for U.S. justice. The judgment by the Supreme Court and the other, even mo... 
While Roberts wanted to give the impression he respected the right to privacy and the precedent of R... 
Someone who opposed efforts to remedy discrimination on the basis of sex and race, ... Someone who o... 
I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I w... 
isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on 'The West Wing,' (television show) let alone to b... 
The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty importan... 
The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that t... 
There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something. 
To me, the central issues before the Senate is whether or not the Senate will allow President Bush t... 
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. 
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government. 
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever. 
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He... 
the most qualified nominee who has ever been put up for a Supreme Court vacancy. 
in these shitty plastic days ... 
Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning. 
[At the same time, there is a growing pile of tidbits, in Roberts' opinions and in the Reagan-era do... 
[At the same time, there is a growing pile of tidbits, in Roberts' opinions and in the Reagan-era do... 
Love is a growing, or full constant light,
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
[Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said he had] an int... 
Deciding not to decide is, of course, among the most important things done by the Supreme Court. It ... 
At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, ... 
I guess we're all excited that President Bush announced his nomination to the Supreme Court - John R... 
I began my legal career working for Byron White, the last Coloradan to serve on the Supreme Court, a... 
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh... 
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind... 
We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it ... 
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its co... 
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degener... 
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. 
I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and... 
This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full. 
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ... 
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. 
The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approa... 
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly alway...