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enough Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 11:36 AM
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Specter praises Roberts for chief justice.
Why bother with hearings -- sounds like a done deal.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/12576319.htm

Posted on Wed, Sep. 07, 2005

Specter praises Roberts for chief
By Steve Goldstein
Philadelphia Inquirer Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) yesterday praised the choice of John G. Roberts Jr. to succeed William H. Rehnquist as chief justice, saying Roberts had "handled himself with real humility" thus far and predicting he would act as a consensus-builder on the Supreme Court.

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Specter said he hoped Roberts "would work for consensus" and bring a new collegiality to the court as chief justice. He praised Roberts' modesty and the reserved tone of the judge's brief speech Monday, at the White House nomination announcement, when Roberts said he was "honored and humbled" to be named to succeed Rehnquist.

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BurgherHoldtheLies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 11:40 AM
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1. Well, compared to the other choices of Scalia and Thomas...
I guess you could say that. :eyes:
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 11:46 AM
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2. why doesn't this asshole resign
does anyone else remember when Specter wasn't one of the evil ones

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BurgherHoldtheLies Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-07-05 11:51 AM
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3. And he's the lesser evil in PA
:cry:
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