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Autopsies are typically performed in private, and on dead people, so the public vivisection this summer of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has at times been a pretty engrossing spectacle. Some opponents got sloppy in their handling of his views; NARAL Pro-Choice America had to pull an ad after...
While few people expect Roberts to stumble much on his road to confirmation, the Senators posing these questions and the pro-and-con activists packing the bleachers know the show is not just about him. This is probably only the first of several Bush Supreme Court nominations. Since the betting...
1. Among the central questions Roberts will be asked to address is how he views a Justice's role: How does he perceive the court's power, and how much does he respect its past decisions? In his responses last month to a Judiciary Committee questionnaire, he invoked the values...
Judges, Roberts noted on his Senate questionnaire, "do not have a commission to solve society's problems." He has held that view since his earliest days in government. Old memos show that as a Reagan Administration lawyer, he ardently opposed judicial meddling in divisive issues he thought were best left...
2. Abortion is only one front in the privacy wars, but at Roberts' confirmation hearings, whether a privacy right exists will function mainly as code for whether an abortion right exists. Among liberals, a major defense of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion, is that if it is...