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RICK SANTORUM, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, on why the White House is balking at releasing Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' income tax returns
Last year Roberts dismissed a case brought by the mother of a 12-year-old girl who had been hauled off in handcuffs for eating a single French fry in the Washington Metro; she claimed her Fourth Amendment and equal-protection rights had been violated, in part because, under the...
One of the few really controversial rulings Roberts has joined as a federal judge came down earlier this month, when the court said that prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay are not protected by the Geneva Convention and can be tried by military commissions. Roberts dissented in 2003 when his...
In one of his most famous cases as a corporate lawyer, Roberts represented Toyota and won a major victory for Big Business against the Americans with Disabilities Act, when the Supreme Court ruled that an assembly-line worker with carpal tunnel syndrome wasn't covered by the antidiscrimination law. Still...
JACK ROBERTS, age 4, soft- saddle-shoed through the President's prime-time nomination of his dad John to the Supreme Court.