Ayotte

Of the 16 new senators, New Hampshire Republican Kelly Ayotte is the lone female.

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Ayotte is one of several Republican hopefuls in New Hampshire's September GOP primary.

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If Kelly Ayotte is the strongest candidate NH republicans can get, they're in more trouble than I thought.

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I think Kelly Ayotte is okay – she's been a good AG here in NH.

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New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley's sharp criticism of Ayotte is not surprising – he is trying to discredit, perhaps, the strongest candidate the Republican Party could field in this open seat race next year.

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So if you want to know who really was the big winner in Ayotte, the answer is simple: It was the federal courts.

Balkinization 2006

Justice O'Connor, as I suspected, forged a compromise among the Justices in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of New Hampshire in what may be her last opinion for the Court.

Balkinization 2006

What her opinion in Ayotte does is make the second, alternative holding of Stenberg as important as the first holding on the health exception.

Balkinization 2006

So although O'Connor's language in Ayotte might suggest that the Federal statute might survive scrutiny with the addition of a judicially crafted health exception, it also might not.

Balkinization 2006

Today, the Supreme Court, with Chief Justice John Roberts at its helm, heard oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of New England, the first abortion case that it has accepted in five years.

Constitutional Issues 2005