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While John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 faced a combative Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday in his confirmation hearing to sit as chief justice, three Harvard Law School heavy-hitters weighed in on the propriety of the Senate’s inquiries.
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.
From the conservative vantage point, the hearing looked good. Roberts wriggled out of each creative whack-a-mole attempt by senators to get him to explain his view of Roe. Specter, whose vote is considered safe but certainly key to Roberts' success, dove into the Roe line of questioning immediately...
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...
In the skyboxes and elsewhere, there were plenty of Roberts supporters on hand to tell the press how wonderfully they thought he was performing. Members of the Senate Republican Conference staff, under Pennsylvania Republican Rick Santorum, decided early on in the hearing planning process that they wanted a noticeable showing...