Or she MAY HAVE "grown" into the most conservative we have ever seen, once seated.
Gun grabbing - Bush said he would sign gun control if it made it to his desk.
Please provide a link to this claim.
Please provide a link to this claim.
This was widely reported, but with Republicans in control, the chances of getting gun control to Bush was thought to be almost zero.
President Bush says he will sign a bill renewing the assault weapons ban if Congress passes it.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/10/assault.weapons.ban/index.html
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Or she MAY HAVE "grown" into the most conservative we have ever seen, once seated.
Correct, but why take a chance on someone with no judicial past to judge her by, especially in light of past Republican picks turning out, so often to be liberals.
From: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-04-defiant-justices_x.htm
Harry Blackmun, appointed by Republican Richard Nixon in 1970, became the author of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that women had a constitutional right to an abortion and later opposed the death penalty.
John Paul Stevens, appointed by Republican Gerald Ford in 1975, became a leader of the court's more liberal bloc in pushing a strict line between church and state, greater federal authority over states and protecting abortion rights.
Anthony Kennedy, appointed by Republican Ronald Reagan in 1988, was a key swing vote in decisions promoting gay rights, barring prayer at school graduation and outlawing the death penalty for people who committed crimes as juveniles.
David H. Souter, appointed by Republican George H.W. Bush in 1990, generally sides with the court's more liberal members in promoting abortion rights, upholding affirmative action and limiting use of the death penalty.