Jan LaRue Quotations

The president should name the best-qualified and proven constitutionalist to replace O'Connor as soon as Judge Roberts is confirmed, regardless of sex, race or ethnicity. The American people will decide the consequences of partisan politicians trying to intimidate the president into surrendering his constitutional duty.

We give Harriet Miers the benefit of the doubt because thus far, President Bush has selected nominees to the federal courts who are committed to the written Constitution. Whether we can support her will depend on what we learn from her record and the hearing process.

We do not doubt Miss Miers' faith in Christ ù we share it, ... We find it patronizing and hypocritical to focus on her faith in order to gain support for Miss Miers.

We do not think there is anything she could say at her hearing that would satisfy our concerns.

If their bill does become law it does not limit pornographers to one domain.

the benefit of the doubt because, thus far, President Bush has selected nominees to the federal courts who are committed to the written Constitution.

We are assured that the president will keep his promise to nominate a strict constructionist, ... undermine respect for life and family.

They're both at the top of just about everybody's list,

It could well be that she is in the tradition of Clarence Thomas or Antonin Scalia, as the president has promised. The problem is that those of us who were looking for some tangible evidence of that have none, and we can't come out of the box supporting her.

You had four members of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court who suddenly found a right to same-sex marriage in the oldest written constitution still enforced in the world. That is a prime example of what we mean by judicial activism.