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Fried, who served as Solicitor General to former president Ronald W. Reagan and will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Roberts, argued yesterday that a judge should not disclose his opinions regarding specific cases...
...questioning immediately, asking the judge whether he believed in such a thing as a right to privacy in the Constitution, and whether Roe qualifies as, in Specter's words, ?a super-duper precedent? thanks to 38 opportunities the Court has had to overturn it. (Roberts, in one of his Reagan-era memos released last month, had referred to a "so-called" right to privacy.) All Specter heard from Roberts was an acknowledgement that the Constitution does contain a right to privacy, and another that overturning earlier decisions isn't undertaken lightly. Specter tried harder, asking Roberts if he believed that...
...Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter, with Roberts in both the Reagan and Bush administrations, spoke highly of his former colleague...
...high stakes too. The band's commitment, to its audience and its music, sanctions and encourages the kind of social concern that in the Reagan '80s became unfashionable, even antique. The album that The Joshua Tree displaced from the top of the chart is a revisionist rap record by the Beastie Boys, three well-born white teens copping street attitude but assuming social postures that teeter between preening smugness and snide irresponsibility. After arriving in Arizona, U2 discovered that Governor Evan Mecham had canceled the state's observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. U2 considered canceling the concerts...
...Rehnquist faced an even more difficult confirmation battle in 1986, when President Reagan nominated him to be Chief Justice. This time Democrats tried to prove that Rehnquist had lied during the 1971 confirmation process-not about the segregation memo but about whether he had intimidated minority voters as a Republican poll watcher during the 1960s in Arizona, where he was practicing law at the time. Rehnquist's critics produced affidavits alleging that he harassed voters at a predominantly black and Hispanic Phoenix precinct in 1964. Rehnquist issued a blanket denial that he had challenged the qualifications of minority voters...