Bush Nominates John Roberts Jr.
As is common knowledge now, Bush nominated John Roberts Jr. to fill Justice O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court. The New York Sun referred to Roberts as a "Supreme Court nominee with conservative credentials who would inspire a minimum of fuss at a confirmation hearing." He has been described as a constitutionalist, which is encouraging.
Anti-Life groups are upset that Roberts may attempt to overturn Roe v. Wade because he tried to overturn it during his days as a lawyer, but they can't be so sure about that. At the time, Roberts was arguing on behalf of a client. Additionally, the AP Newswire has noted:
Pressed during his 2003 confirmation hearing for his own views on the matter, Roberts said: "Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land. … There's nothing in my personal views that would prevent me from fully and faithfully applying that precedent."
Still, Roberts doesn't have a clear record on many issues, which can be disconcerting. He could possibly turn out to be another unintentionally non-conservative nomination to the Supreme Court.
Nonetheless, liberal advocacy groups like People for the American Way and the Alliance for Justice issued statements expressing dissatisfaction with Bush's recommendation, leading me to believe that this is probably an excellent choice.
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July 21st, 2005 at 07:45
"Anti-life groups" refers to what groups?
I know of no such groups who are anti-life, except perhaps weapons manufacturers, "war presidents", and those administrations that concoct reasons to go to war and then redefine the word "torture" to legally permit themselves to torture those they didn't get to kill.
July 21st, 2005 at 17:34
NARAL, specifically. They referred to Roberts as an "anti-choice activist." Planned Parenthood also refers to "anti-choice zealots." These two groups specifically would fall into the anti-life group. They tend to prefer the death of unborn children to any other options.