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CANDY CROWLEY, HOST "STATE OF THE UNION": You don't think at this point, you don't see any signs of a Republican filibuster?

SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R), TEXAS: I would say it's premature. We know she has expressed hostility to second-amendment rights, saying she wasn't sympathetic to the arguments of gun owners when she clerked for chief justice or justice Thurgood Marshall. We know that on a number of areas, the hot-button issues of the day she's been very much involved in refusing to allow military recruiters to come to Harvard, notwithstanding the fact that they receive federal dollars and it violated the Congressionally-passed Solomon Amendment.

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CROWLEY: Could the president have nominated anybody that you would have liked, you think?

CORNYN: Absolutely.

CROWLEY: Knowing his, you know, the sorts of people that he was looking at?

CORNYN: Well, this says something about the president as well as the nominee. And clearly this president is trying to get somebody through who has a very sparse record and who he believes will be a reliable vote on the left wing of the United States Supreme Court.

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