Sen. Dodd Says Chief Justice Roberts Misled Him on Abortion

As the only Democratic Senator running for President who voted to confirm US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Sen. Chris Dodd had some explaining to do at the April 26 candidates debate. I put together these clips to help decide whether his explanation for his vote to confirm Roberts was really credible.

You can see the entire April 26 debate on the MSNBC website at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18326264

And, you can find the September 2005 CBS News stories from which I took two short clips for this video at: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=842368n

and at: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=879246n

Finally, you can see the speech Sen. Dodd made back in 2005 justifying his vote to confirm Chief Justice Roberts at: http://dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/3274&pr=press/Speeches/109_05/092...

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[Secularprophet]

I'm a recent subscriber and find that generally you have a good ear for a story. But this piece is an exception. The debate comment was perhaps over-broad (note that this candidate said that he would not have changed his vote), but in the scheme of things rather minor. How about a piece on the Whitehouse emails? Or if you have the resources, the prosecution records on political cases for the AG's that weren't fired. There's a lot of important stuff out there but this ain't it.

[LiberalViewer]

Secularprophet,

I should explain that Ive never pretended to present the most important issues or a complete picture of what's happening in the world. I make vids that interest me, where I think my background/skills/knowledge give me something worth saying or that I havent seen said. Given the choice, tho, I do try to focus on more important issues, but I'll readily admit some of my vids are just silly.

MORE:

[LiberalViewer]

MORE:

On the AG scandal specifically, the biggest prob I have getting "excoted" about that one is that, having worked a year as a law clerk for the fed pub defender, I found that almost every decision made in the offices of the US Attorneys is at least in part political

I seriously appreciate your feedback :-)

[LiberalViewer]

PS the word "excoted" was supposed to be "excited." I'm also a bad typist :-(

[J1Goro]

This is the most important topic for Democrats to argue about... LiberalViewer is a tool. Enough said.

[LiberalViewer]

J1Goro,

Actually, I don't think your post had "enough said" to explain your accusation that I'm a "tool." Still,

thx 4 comment :-)

[mjconley12]

LOL. Does anyone else see the irony? Killing off abortion...LOL.

[thebig1]

I agree with that, problem is its never going to happen. Therefore you can bet your butt if the GOP members of that court have a chance to kill off abortion they will do so.

[thebig1]

Well since Roberts and Alito were confirmed to the court it has gotten a great deal more conservative. If Stevens doesn't retire soon the GOP will have a chance to pick his replacement in 2012 along with the very unhealthy Ginsberg. We'll see what happens.

[dovecry2]

The US Supreme Court legalized the killing of unborn babies - at the Fed level it was okayed to kill - over half of those babies would be tax paying menbers of society today had the Supreme Court not Okayed it to kill - I was not so desperate that I would have sought a back alley abortion- it's just that it was handed to me on a silver platter covered with a silver lid of lies - The Supreme Court needs to face it - our streets are running red with the blood of the innocents

[brickwood]

F here. home alone with a webcam H

[acool76]

very well done clip, little fellah! keep up the great work.

[scientistwriter]

Abortion is not an issue that the federal government should regulate, it belongs to the state.

Not only that this is a non-issue.

Everyone needs to be focused on shutting down the federal reserve and getting back sound and honest money.