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...should stay away from discussion of specific cases,” he told Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the committee’s chairman, who opened the day’s hearings with questions about the contentious Roe v. Wade decision...
John Roberts spent most of the first day of his Senate confirmation hearing doing what he does best-being a perfect student. He listened dutifully as Senator Orrin Hatch instructed him on drawing the line against probing questions from Democrats. He nodded with understanding at the dramatic flourishes of Sen. Joseph Biden, who told him that as a Supreme Court justice he might rule on whether microchips could be implanted in people to track them. And when Senator Dianne Feinstein launched an impassioned defense of abortion rights, Roberts focused intently on her even as people were entering and exiting...
...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 subject of abortion. Sen. Diane Feinstein tried yet another approach, philosophically asking whether the right of privacy applies to the beginning and end of life. Roberts again deflected. She then asked whether he agreed with the ruling in a 1992 abortion case, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, in which the majority specifically declined to overrule...
...Force Base for his second trip to the disaster zone. It was better than his first on Friday. He didn't offer any untenable defenses of the federal response and he didn't say anything too off key like he did last time when he vowed to rebuild Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott's home and fondly recalled his partying days in New Orleans. Bush visited victims of Katrina at a shelter near Baton Rouge, where he was joined by T.D. Jakes, the charismatic African-American religious broadcaster. The President met with emergency managers in Baton Rouge and in Mississippi...
These are minor quibbles. But having missed a golden opportunity to curry favor with Sen back in 1998 by walking out of his lecture, I am now scribbling down every point of dissent in the margins of his splendid, wonderfully written new book...