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...Connor as Supreme Court Justice [July 18] serve to unify America, or will it lead to a confrontational crisis? The U.S.'s Founding Fathers gave Supreme Court Justices lifetime appointments, not foreseeing the deeply acrimonious partisanship that would exist in today's politics. The majority of Americans support Roe vs. Wade, the court decision that legalized abortion, and we don't need Bush's circumventing the public's will through his selection of a Supreme Court Justice. Ron Lowe Nevada City, California, U.S. Democrats and Republicans alike, except for extremists on both sides, admired Justice O'Connor's flexibility...
...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 overturned the destabilizing effect will be great, denying women a legal right they have had for 32 years. But to many conservatives the matter has never been settled as the Warren Court's original recognition of a constitutional right to privacy (in a 1965 case involving the use of contraception) provided...
...Roberts really does think Roe was "wrongly decided," as he wrote in a 1990 Justice Department brief, Democrats want to know if he would be willing to throw it out or whether that would be too radical a reaction for his taste. Conservatives hope Roberts will line up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas in favor of overturning Roe, which would match the quartet--David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens--that wants to maintain it, leaving Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote. While Roe might survive, such a lineup would probably ensure that...
...replace Sandra Day O'Connor [July 11] serve to unify the country, or will it lead to a confrontational crisis? America's Founding Fathers gave Supreme Court Justices lifetime appointments, not foreseeing the deeply acrimonious partisanship that would exist in today's politics. The majority of Americans support Roe v. Wade, the court decision that legalized abortion, and we don't need Bush's circumventing the public's will through his selection of a Supreme Court Justice. Ron Lowe Nevada City, California...
During Senate confirmation hearings in 2003, Roberts stressed that he had no personal issue with applying the precedent of Roe v. Wade, which he called "the settled law of the land." But during his stint as Principal Deputy Solicitor General from 1989 to 1993, Roberts co-authored briefs in two controversial Supreme Court cases, one that upheld federal rules prohibiting clinics that received federal dollars from even discussing abortions and another that helped to successfully defend pro-life protesters who had blocked entry to abortion clinics against charges that they had thereby violated the rights of women. "We continue...