Largest Women's Group Backs Roberts
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Concerned Women for America, the nation's largest public policy women's organization, strong praised President Bush's selection of the Honorable John Roberts of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Everything we know about Judge Roberts tells us that he fulfills the President's promise to nominate a judge who will strictly interpret the Constitution and not legislate from the bench," said Jan LaRue, CWA's chief counsel. "That's why the President nominated him to the D.C. Circuit. He clerked for Rehnquist, which says a lot."
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No reasonable person can claim that Judge Roberts is "out-of- the-mainstream" or that his judicial philosophy or record constitutes "extraordinary circumstances" that would justify Democrats engaging in an abusive filibuster in order to deny him an up-or-down vote.
The confirmation process should occur without partisan political rancor and be in keeping with the dignity of the Court. The past is the best evidence of future expectations.
CWA said there's plenty of reasons to expect the Left to re-run plays from their judicial warfare book-distort-defame-delay. The problem for the left is that the American people are on to them and won't stand for obstructionist, partisan politics.
"Judge Roberts is widely respected for his appellate advocacy, having argued some 39 cases before the Supreme Court. He knows how to think on his feet, his warm engaging personality will serve him well at his hearing and be a big plus for him with the American people," LaRue concluded.
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