Nan Aron
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"Nan Aron" is a public interest lawyer and civil rights advocate living in Washington, D.C., working to promote and protect public interest in national policy. Aron is the founder and president of Alliance for Justice, a national association of public interest and consumer rights organizations with the goal of promoting justice for all Americans, enhancing the public interest community's ability to influence public policy, and mentoring and fostering the next generation of advocates.

Prior to Alliance for Justice, Aron worked as a staff attorney for the ACLU's National Prison Project, where she challenged conditions in state prison systems. Aron went on to serve as a trial attorney for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she litigated race and sex discrimination cases against companies and unions in federal and district courts.

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Would give any woman who believes in reproductive rights and freedom any comfort.

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How the Democrats handle themselves will have an impact on how they're remembered by their constituents. I think certainly constituents remembered how some of their senators voted on the Clarence Thomas confirmation and punished some of them for their votes.

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It was an incomplete answer. He didn't give any indication to where it would lead him.

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The nomination of Justice Antonin Scalia [as chief justice] would ignite a firestorm of debate in this country.

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[The same liberal groups that opposed Roberts for associate justice declared him even more unfit for chief.] His views are very much out of sync with civil rights, women's rights, privacy, ... Certainly reviewing so many of those memos and briefs and papers he authored makes one wonder whether he understands how the law affects ordinary people.

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The existing record suggests that Judge Roberts lacks sufficient appreciation for how the law affects ordinary people.

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His views are very much out of sync with civil rights, women's rights, privacy. Certainly reviewing so many of those memos and briefs and papers he authored makes one wonder whether he understands how the law affects ordinary people.

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Speaking to bloggers on a daily basis.

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It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.

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