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September 13, 2005

Sen. Graham Gets Ornery

Graham: "I think it stinks that someone can burn the flag and that's called speech. What do you think about?"

Roberts: [tries to answer]

Graham: "Show me where the term symbolic speech is in the constitution."

Roberts: ....

Graham: "I think it stinks that a kid can't go to school and say a prayer voluntarily. What do you think about that? What do you think Ronald Reagan thought about it?"

Roberts: ....

Graham: "What is it right for you to go through the nomination from a personal point of view? [There are lots of bad things said about you.] How does that make you feel?"

Posted by Marc Ambinder | 06:01 PM



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