Roberts fields questions on data protection and Precedents
A day lost flashes of hostility and humor, Judge John G. Roberts Jr. Tuesday, recognized a right to privacy and said overturning precedent was a “burst of law”.
But he cleverly circumvented the contentious issue, which requires a him as “Supreme Court nominee, he decides against Roe v. Wade, 1973, the decision of a constitutional right to abortion. [Excerpts, Page A26.]
Roe has been a problem minutes after the start of the second day of the first consulting the Supreme Court confirms 11 years and one in which Judge Roberts, President Bush’s nominee to the nation 17 Chief Justice, was also questioned His views on citizens’ rights, discrimination based on sex, presidential authority and the appropriate role of judges.
Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Roberts has requested a number of questions to draw him, he believes that the right to abortion is also incorporated into the fabric of American life , Il ne faut pas non plus.
The nominees wasted little time creating the line of response to questions he said, before the Court of Justice. Four minutes after the hearing, he said Specter, “I feel the need to stay away from a discussion on the events.”
He reiterated that phrase in one form or another throughout the day on subjects as varied as the right to die and the treatment of foreign prisoners.
Tally Democrats have a number of requests it considers Roberts said refuse to answer that the number to 60
Judge Roberts told senators that does not exceed a certain form of legal philosophy, and he opposes comparisons with William Rehnquist, Chief Justice, so there clerked, senators say that would be willing to my own husband. ”
He flatly rejected the idea that his Roman Catholic religion played a role in decisions of his court and said: “I hope that the law books and more. I do not have the Bible or other religious sources. ”
The meeting, which began at 9:30 am and lasted until nearly 8 hours, the group was on the basis of his first unscripted public exchange with Judge Roberts.
He offered Senate Democrats have bitterly regretted that they know little about the nominees of personal views, their first chance to question Judge Roberts on his judicial philosophy and legal record.
Relying on thousands of documents from the nominees the day as a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, the Democrats peppered Roberts Judge questions authority presidential rights of citizens and non-discrimination between the sexes.
Perhaps is the fight vigorously participated memorandums that Judge Roberts wrote in the early 1980’s, argued that the Reagan administration was properly opposing new provisions in a bill extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The bill, at home with an overwhelming majority, has made it easier to prove violations of voting rights.
“I am deeply concerned by a small and narrow, and perhaps even an important temperament of the law, which in some of your writings,” Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, was one of the main architects of enlargement, said.
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