The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.

This is going to be the most important, most controversial Supreme Court confirmation battle since Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.

I guess we're all excited that President Bush announced his nomination to the Supreme Court - John Roberts. Bush searched far and wide before he made the risky choice of a white guy in his 50s,

And because of President Obama, more women than ever are serving in the Cabinet and on the Supreme Court.