Senator Will Not Ask Roberts To Take A Stand On Abortion
..., while he personally consider it inappropriate to ask a nominee how he would vote on a specific matter likely to come before the court, he thinks senators may ask whatever they choose and the nominee is similarly free to respond as he chooses. He also said, Judge Roberts's writings as a young Reagan administration lawyer have left "an extensive so-called paper trail" for the committee to explore, on topics including the right to privacy, busing, voting rights, women's rights and affirmative action. But the senator doesn’t point out the request by Democrats for access to more recent legal letter from Judge Roberts's days as principal deputy solicitor general in the first Bush administration. Further, Mr. Specter has tried to play a neutral role in the Roberts confirmation process, when an abortion rights supporter group ran what he thought was a misleading television advertisement against Judge Roberts and as a result he called for the advertisement to be pulled, and it was. (Source: Daily News) In my opinion, I believe that President Bush appointed Judge John Roberts as the 17th chief of justice of the United States, because they both know each other and knows that Roberts is going to support him in a way that any law that bush makes Roberts its not going to veto it, instead he is going to interpret the laws the way bush wants him to. Despite the fact, that Roberts is 50 years old which that’s too young to be a judge in the Supreme Court. Though, I think Bush appointed him i...