[Gandy criticized the decision based on what is known about Roberts’ attitude towards women, but also on the basis of what is not known.] How dare Bush nominate this candidate, ... for the top position on the Supreme Court when his administration has deliberately concealed hundreds of thousands of pages of his writings, during a time that he was one of the top lawyers representing the people of the United States? If the Bush administration refuses to release these papers, we must ask ourselves what they are hiding. |
A lot of strong women there. But sometimes it is a tough place to make progress on our issues. |
an outrage and an insult to the women of this country. |
At this time, with the country's leadership in turmoil and confidence in the government steadily declining, now more than ever we need stability. |
Betty led NOW when we were challenging every orthodoxy about what it means to be a woman. |
Every answer he gives he gives himself a little out. It's frustrating to me as a lawyer to not be able to say, 'Your Honor, instruct the witness to answer the question.' I've thought several times there is a follow-up question I would ask if I were up there. |
From the Bush administration's attacks on women's rights to preparing for a vacancy on the Supreme Court, NOW activists have our hands full protecting the advances we've made together over the past decades and moving forward on women's rights, |
He got the message loud and clear, didn't he? |
He's a very smart lawyer and he's giving legalistic answers that are probably accurate. He doesn't want to lie. But he's giving answers that under some legal analysis do tip his hand, and it's very bad news for women. |
I remember what it was like in the 1960's in rural Louisiana. Women did not have many options. My own best friend in high school had a baby at 16. I don't want us to go back to those days. |
I thought, you know, this doesn't look right, ... And I got involved in NOW. I saw them talking about this very law, which was called the Head and Master law, and the next seven years getting rid of it. |
I'm shocked that there are some people who don't look more deeply at the words, |
If Bush chooses a nominee whose only intention is to scale back the rights we have fought decades to win, we are prepared for a battle royal. Bring it on. |
It doesn't have to be difficult. It is made difficult. That's the next challenge — how can you be responsible for your family and still be part of your government, your political process, your town? It cannot be that women have to do it all. |
It is an outrage and an insult to the women of this country that George W. Bush has nominated such a jurist to be chief justice of the United States, |