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Encouraging! I'm glad serious thought is being given to good Supreme Court nominees.

[VA Advogado]

In the interview last year, he was careful when discussing judicial philosophy. He declined to answer specific questions on controversial issues that inevitably confront Supreme Court nominees, such as abortion and affirmative action. He emphasized that his personal views might be different from how he would vote on a case.

Gonzales' two-year tenure on Texas' Supreme Court, which ended when he resigned so he could follow Bush to Washington, was too brief to offer much insight into his attitudes as a jurist. Texas lawyers regarded him as a moderate on a generally conservative court.

This is a lie. He's pro-abortion and has ruled that way when on the Texas supreme court:

Public scrutiny of Gonzales obviously increased after he came to Washington, and criticism hasn't come only from the left. Several months ago, anti-abortion activists started circulating messages against him for voting last year, as a member of the Texas Supreme Court, to allow a young woman to have an abortion without notifying her parents. Gonzales also disturbed abortion-rights activists by writing at the time that he was "impartially" applying state law "without imposing my moral view."

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