Roberts pressed on Roe v. Wade
Sep. 13th, 2005 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
veronica_richJohn Roberts apparently has said he'll stand by previous Supreme Court rulings on the right to choice for an abortion as cited in the following article I found:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/politics/politicsspecial1/13cnd-confirm.html
Sorry, not going to cut and paste for the link-phobic; this is worth your time to click on and read. I will, however, cite one paragraph I found exceedingly interesting:
The judge, who now sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, said several times that the views he conveyed more than two decades ago as a lawyer in the Reagan administration should be regarded as the views of the administration, not necessarily his own.
So ... who's to say he can be trusted this time around? Compared to Dubya, the Reagan administration's views were positively progressive. Is he simply going to parrot back another misguided administration's views, when the going gets rough?
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/politics/politicsspecial1/13cnd-confirm.html
Sorry, not going to cut and paste for the link-phobic; this is worth your time to click on and read. I will, however, cite one paragraph I found exceedingly interesting:
The judge, who now sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, said several times that the views he conveyed more than two decades ago as a lawyer in the Reagan administration should be regarded as the views of the administration, not necessarily his own.
So ... who's to say he can be trusted this time around? Compared to Dubya, the Reagan administration's views were positively progressive. Is he simply going to parrot back another misguided administration's views, when the going gets rough?
