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...vote if he answered questions fully and proved he wasn't a radical. Biden said that without an explanation during the hearing of Robert's past writings, he'd have to vote against him-implying that if he came clean, Roberts could win a yes vote from the Delaware Democrat. One Democratic staffer explained the tactic as playing to Roberts' need to win, in the hopes that the man who has argued and won so many cases in front of the Supreme Court can be lured out of his carefully maintained defenses to answer hot-button questions on race, abortion...
...Delaware Democrat Joe Biden tried asking Roberts whether a state could pass a law outlawing abortion, drawing from a question that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had answered at her hearing. Roberts said he couldn't answer, maintaining that Ginsburg had been freer to comment because she had written articles on the subject of abortion. Sen. Diane Feinstein tried yet another approach, philosophically asking whether the right of privacy applies to the beginning and end of life. Roberts again deflected. She then asked whether he agreed with the ruling in a 1992 abortion case, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, in which the majority...
...fighting for India, which didn't even exist in 1857, but was just a village boy furious that he couldn't be a good Hindu because of the animal fat on his cartridges. The iconoclasts might be onto something?the film's portrayal of Pandey as a progressive democrat committed to equality and religious accord is howlingly implausible, given the era in which he lived. Still, it's a harmless piece of idealization in a country that could do with more harmony...
...Approve" percentages, by party affiliation: ?Republican 91% -- Jan. 12-13 ?Republican 81% -- Sept. 7-8 ?Democrat 25% -- Jan. 12-13 ?Democrat 13% -- Sept. 7-8 ?Independent 46% -- Jan. 12-13 ?Independent 36% -- Sept...
...akin to negotiating with terrorists. It only emboldens enemies of the First Amendment. The issue is not about Time magazine. It is about the public trust that you hold. Or at least held. Valarie S. Zeeck Tacoma, Washington, U.S. Time did the right thing. As a lawyer and a Democrat, I wish the Supreme Court had heard Time's appeal and protected the confidentiality of its reporter's sources. Still, I applaud Pearlstine for making the principled decision to follow the rule of law, much as he believes the law should be different. We don't have to like laws...