22 ordspråk av Leonard Leo
Leonard Leo
Conservatives should be very happy with this selection.
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Documents that she's prepared as executive counsel to the president will be subject to executive privilege.
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He can pull it off because they really respect him. What other justices look for in a chief justice is honesty, straight-shooting and smarts. That's what they want and that's what they'll get.
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I think the Democrats have decided that their strategy is going to be to keep the margin of victory as low as possible to condition the environment for a big fight on the next nomination. The [White House] response is very simple: to nominate whoever we want in the future, because Democrats will oppose whoever we nominate.
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I thought his answers on the privacy issue were pretty good, and were satisfying to me,
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It took a degree of courage for Harriet to be involved in that. The ABA is a place where there was an awful lot of liberal activism, so it took some courage for a woman to take the position she did.
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OPEN-MINDED COUNTRY
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Schumer pressed him very hard on accepting the word 'general' in the context of right to privacy, and he refused to do so. That says something very meaningful about the way in which he thinks about the right to privacy.
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She has been a forceful advocate of conservative legal principles and judicial restraint throughout her career.
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She has demonstrated that in her capacity as White House counsel and a senior administration official as well as an active member of the organized bar.
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that they were very interested in making sure that the president nominated a second individual who shared the philosophy of judicial restraint.
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That took the kind of courage and determination you want on the Supreme Court,
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The president's still got substantial approval and popularity among the conservative base in this country, and this is one of the most important issues for that group. I don't think this is a winning issue for Democrats, and I suspect that the president feels very comfortable making this decision based on what philosophically and substantively is right for the country.
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There would be a moment of silence when she was clearly thinking about what was being said and then she would challenge it, asking, 'But what specifically in those opinions strongly suggests that this is someone who ascribes to judicial restraint?
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We'd be talking about somebody's background.
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