Word: appointer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...options are clear: Choose Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who will appoint justices who interpret the Constitution as it was intended, or choose Vice President Al Gore '69, who will nominate justices who feel free to legislate from the bench...
Bush has the appropriate view that issues of legislation, including abortion, should be left to the state legislatures and Congress to decide. It is a violation of our founding fathers' intent to allow an appointed body to legislate. In accordance with this original ideal, Bush would appoint justices who would return power to the states, empowering the people and local governments to rule...
...little wonder that Al Gore brought it up every chance he got, wouldn't let it go in his chat with Larry King last week, even as George W. Bush called the FDA ruling "wrong" and promised to build a "culture of life." The next President, Gore warns, could appoint as many as four Supreme Court Justices, enough to bury Roe v. Wade forever. Just in case any swing-voting women out there are taking abortion rights for granted, Gore noted that "I support a woman's right to choose; my opponent does...
...BUSH: Sounds like the vice president is not very right many times tonight. I've just told you the criteria in which I'll appoint judges. I've had a record of appointing judges in the state of Texas. That's what a governor gets to do. A governor gets to name Supreme Court judges, and I've given...
...months later turned out another front-page story. This one took pains to explain that building an espionage case is an "imprecise art" and that federal investigators may have "focused too soon" on Lee. The paper's editorial page has also redirected its barbs, prodding the President to appoint an independent examiner. Last week the Times maintained that "if racial profiling is found, investigators and prosecutors should be called to account for their conduct...