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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHaven't heard any comment from GWB, who inflicted the country with Roberts and Alito.
Are Laura and the Bush daughters happy with overturning Roe?
Poppy, W, and the Orange One gave us this mess.
gab13by13
(21,412 posts)Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)The wife and daughters probably aren't thrilled, but no big deal to them
luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Somehow he believes painting pictures of veterans absolves him of any responsibility for the plight he subjected them to.
jimfields33
(15,979 posts)Too much to ask for.
dchill
(38,547 posts)...the smugness out of his reply.
blm
(113,101 posts)With good reason.
If confirmed as expected, Alito, 55, will replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a moderate swing vote and the first woman appointed to the high court.
On the Senate floor, Kerry said Alito's nomination poses a threat "to the balance that the Supreme Court has upheld in all the years that Justice O'Connor has served there."
"This nomination is an extraordinary circumstance," he said. "What could possibly be more important than an entire shift in the direction of the Supreme Court of the United States?"
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jimfields33
(15,979 posts)If you notice every Supreme Court justice that was turned down was replaced by worse.