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...Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the committee’s chairman, appeared dissatisfied with Roberts’ responses during an exchange over laws aiding the disabled and victims of domestic violence. He was one of the few Republican members of the committee to seem irked...
...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...
Presiding over the hearings, Specter drew laughs from the audience when he said, “Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. They may be misleading, but they are his answers...
...committee will reconvene today for a second round of questioning. Specter said yesterday during a break that he hopes to question Roberts further on the notion of a “living Constitution...
...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 Roe. He replied only that the Casey decision was "a precedent on a precedent." Maybe that makes it one of Specter's "super-duper precedents," but it was hard to read much into the horizontal crease in Roberts' forehead (a byproduct of the look of intense concern with which he greeted each utterance by his questioners...