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Senator Barack Obama
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- Senator Obama voted against confirming John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. [Vote #245, 9/29/05]
- Senator Obama voted to filibuster the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. [Vote #1, 1/30/06]
- Senator Obama voted against confirming Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. [Vote #2, 1/31/06]
- Obama said that judgments of John Roberts' character during his confirmation hearings were largely superficial and added that judicial philosophy should be weighted more seriously than such evaluations. Obama: "He loves his wife. He's good to his dog. We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges." [MSNBC.com, 7/17/07]
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