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Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, praised Roberts’ judicial philosophy, but remained cautious about how President Bush’s nominee would act once on the Supreme Court.
Throughout last week’s hearings, senators on both sides of the aisle—including Durbin, Feinstein, Kennedy, and Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio—urged the nominee to consider the human ramifications of the Court’s rulings.
And in 1977, he said, his constitutional law section included one student whose opinion could sway the outcome of the FAIR case: chief justice nominee John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76.
Greenfield said that Roberts’ statement during the confirmation hearings did not mean that the nominee would necessarily vote against FAIR.
The new developments come less than a week after President Bush’s nominee for Supreme Court chief justice, John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76, said during his confirmation hearings that “as a general proposition,” he believes that Congress may attach...