[Bush's commitment to diversity on the federal courts is borne out by the numbers, said federal court scholar Sheldon Goldman, political science professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.] His record has been the best record of any Republican president, ... It exceeds his father's record. It's not as good as President Clinton's record, but it's close to President Carter's. Carter was the breakthrough administration for diversity or nontraditional appointments. |
Anyone who is ambitious knows you have to network. With a conservative Republican administration in power, the Federalist Society is a wonderful opportunity to network. |
His record has been the best record of any Republican president. It exceeds his father's record. It's not as good as President Clinton's record, but it's close to President Carter's. Carter was the breakthrough administration for diversity or nontraditional appointments. |
I have to sympathize with this woman. |
I suspect that Leahy and the Democrats' position is strategic: to defuse Republican charges that this is strict partisanship - that interest groups are controlling the show. |
If a nominee has been very active in either organization, it raises some red flags. If you have that membership and a record of activism, that compounds the felony, |
Is she qualified? If the leading professional association is either divided or comes in with a negative report, that could be fatal. Strongly positive, that would be helpful. |
It really depends on the committee and the preferences of the committee members. |
It's Roberts's nomination to lose. He needs to please the Republican conservative base and more-centrist Democrats, ... If he comes across as an ideologue - as anti-civil rights, anti-women's rights - he will lose. If he stonewalls, he's finished. But it's inconceivable ... that he will open himself up like that. |
It's Roberts's nomination to lose. He needs to please the Republican conservative base and more-centrist Democrats. If he comes across as an ideologue - as anti-civil rights, anti-women's rights - he will lose. If he stonewalls, he's finished. But it's inconceivable ... that he will open himself up like that. |
Just because you run IBM, for example, doesn't mean you are exceptional at acquiring companies. |
The difference in treatment that she has received has been absolutely stunning. |
This is a member of the president's official family. |
To have a Supreme Court open just four weeks from now, the first Monday in October, with only seven people and no chief justice would be unprecedented, and I don't see that happening. |