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20070621

John G Roberts - Samuel A Alito - Politics - History - Abortion - Nebraska - "Precedents Begin to Fall for Roberts Court." ... "No Supreme Court nominee could be confirmed these days without paying homage to the judicial doctrine of “stare decisis,” Latin for “to stand by things decided.” Yet experienced listeners have learned to take these professions of devotion to precedent “cum grano salis,” Latin for “with a grain of salt.”" ... "Both Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. assured their Senate questioners at their confirmation hearings that they, too, respected precedent. So why were they on the majority side of a 5-to-4 decision last week declaring that a 45-year-old doctrine excusing people whose “unique circumstances” prevented them from meeting court filing deadlines was now “illegitimate”?" ... "It was the second time the Roberts court had overturned a precedent, and the first in a decision with a divided vote. It surely will not be the last." ... "So the question is not whether the Roberts court will overturn more precedents, but how often, by what standard and in what terms." ... "Sometimes the court overrules cases without actually saying so. Some argue that this is what happened in April, when a 5-to-4 majority upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act without making much effort to reconcile that ruling with a decision in 2000 that found a nearly identical Nebraska law unconstitutional." -By Linda Greenhouse -NYTimes

20070529

Worker - Women - Race - Alabama - Business - Alito - Roberts - Scalia - Kennedy - "Worker Job-Bias Claims Limited by U.S. Supreme Court (Update4)." ... "Workers can't sue under a federal job- bias law to claim they are underpaid because of gender or race discrimination that occurred years earlier, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a victory for employers." ... "The justices, voting 5-4, rejected a $360,000 award to Lilly Ledbetter, an Alabama Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. worker who said that almost two decades of discrimination meant her salary was 15 to 40 percent lower than what her male counterparts earned." ... "The 1964 Civil Rights Act typically gives workers 180 days from the time of the alleged discrimination to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The question was whether workers can claim that their most recent paychecks are affected by bias that took place outside the 180-day window." ... "``Current effects alone cannot breathe life into prior, uncharged discrimination,'' Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority. ``Ledbetter should have filed an EEOC charge within 180 days after each allegedly discriminatory pay decision was made and communicated to her.''" ... "Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas joined Alito's opinion. Lower courts were divided on the issue." ... "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court's only woman, took the unusual step of reading a summary of her dissent from the bench as she sat next to Alito. She said the majority ``does not comprehend, or is indifferent to, the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination.'' " -By Greg Stohr -Bloomberg

20070418

Women's - Health - Science - Abortion - Politics - Roberts - Alito - Kennedy - Scalia - "`Partial Birth' Abortion Ban Upheld by Top U.S. Court (Update2)." ... "A divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld a nationwide ban on ``partial birth'' abortion, marking a shift on the issue and underscoring the impact of President George W. Bush's two high court appointments." ... "The justices, voting 5-4, said the 2003 law is constitutional even though there is no exception for cases posing a risk to the mother's health. The court also rejected claims that the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act is so vaguely worded it would force doctors to forgo a commonly used, constitutionally protected abortion technique for fear of prosecution." ... "Bush's appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, helped turn the tide in today's case, joining Kennedy and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas." ... "In dissent, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the ruling ``alarming'' and took the unusual step of reading a summary of her opinion from the bench. She pointed to the conclusion of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that the disputed procedure was proper in some cases." ... "``And, for the first time since Roe, the court blesses a prohibition with no exception safeguarding a woman's health,'' Ginsburg wrote. Justices Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens and David Souter joined Ginsburg's dissent." -By Greg Stohr -Bloomberg

20060615

Police - History - Civil Righs - Politics - Samuel Alito - Antonin Scalia - John Roberts - Homes - "Court Limits Protection Against Improper Entry." ... "Evidence found by police officers who enter a home to execute a search warrant without first following the requirement to "knock and announce" can be used at trial despite that constitutional violation, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday." ... "The 5-to-4 decision left uncertain the value of the "knock-and-announce" rule, which dates to 13th-century England as protection against illegal entry by the police into private homes." ... "Justice Antonin Scalia, in the majority opinion, said that people subject to an improper police entry remained free to go to court and bring a civil rights suit against the police." ... "But Justice Stephen G. Breyer, writing for the dissenters, said the ruling "weakens, perhaps destroys, much of the practical value of the Constitution's knock-and-announce protection." He said the majority's reasoning boiled down to: "The requirement is fine, indeed, a serious matter, just don't enforce it."" ... "In addition to Justice Alito, those who joined the majority opinion by Justice Scalia were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas and Anthony M. Kennedy. Justice Breyer's dissenting opinion was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg" -By Linda Greenhouse -NYTimes

20060530

Government - Employees - Law - Los Angeles - California - Samuel Alito - John Roberts - Antonin Scalia - "Justices Set Limits on Public Employees' Speech Rights." ... "The Supreme Court declared today, in a ruling affecting millions of government employees, that the Constitution does not always protect their free-speech rights for what they say on the job." ... "In a 5-to-4 decision, the court held that public employees' free-speech rights are protected when they speak out as citizens on matters of public concern, but not when they speak out in the course of their official duties." ... "Today's ruling, involving a deputy Los Angeles [California] district attorney who contended that he had been denied a promotion for challenging the legitimacy of a search warrant, came in a case that has been closely watched not just by public workers but by those who have worried that it could discourage internal whistle-blowers from speaking up about government misconduct and inefficiency." ... ""We hold that when public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, the employees are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court." ... "The court's newest justice, Samuel A. Alito Jr., was in the majority as were Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas." -By David Stout -NYTimes

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20060221

Women - Abortion - Health - Politics - Sandra Day O'Connor - Samuel Alito - John Roberts - "Supreme Court to look at federal ban on late-term abortion." ... "It's not new territory for the court, which in 2000 split 5-4 when it struck down a similar state ban because it lacked a health exception for women." ... "But Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who voted with the majority in that case, has been replaced by Justice Samuel Alito, whose views on abortion are widely expected to be more restrictive." ... "The case could be the first in which Alito, with other court conservatives including new Chief Justice John G. Roberts, helps chart a more restrictive trajectory for the court's handling of abortion laws." -By Stephen Henderson -KnightRidder via -RealCities

20060117

Oregon - Health - Drugs - John Roberts - "Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Assisted Suicide Law." ... "The Supreme Court rejected the Bush administration's challenge to the nation's only right-to-die law today and ruled Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft overstepped his authority when he sought to punish the Oregon doctors who helped terminally ill people end their lives." ... "The 6-3 decision was a victory for states and their independent-minded voters, and a defeat for social conservatives." ... "New Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., in his first significant decision, joined Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas in dissent." ... "The high court majority said the states — not federal authorities — have long had the power to regulate the practice of medicine and the licensing of doctors." -By David G. Savage -LAtimes

20051130

John Roberts - New Hampshire - Parent -Abortion - Woman - Health - "Roberts signals support for abortion curbs: In high court argument, chief justice hints at upholding New Hampshire law." ... "The news in Wednesday's Supreme Court argument over New Hampshire's parental notification abortion law was that the John Roberts era may be one in which the right to get an abortion is further curtailed." ... "At least at first blush, Roberts - hearing his first case as chief justice on abortion restrictions - seemed to be trying hard to save the New Hampshire law from being declared unconstitutional, as it was by two lower courts." ... "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit had ruled the entire New Hampshire law invalid, partly because it did not provide an exemption for cases in which the doctor decided that abortion was needed to prevent damage to the girl's health." -By Tom Curry -MSNBC

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20050921

John Roberts - Vermont - Nevada - Massachusetts - - "Leahy Says He Will Vote to Confirm Chief Justice Nominee." ... "The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said today that he would vote to confirm Judge John G. Roberts Jr. as the 17th chief justice of the United States, having concluded that the nominee is "a man of integrity" who is not shackled to an "ideological agenda."" ... "Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont announced his intention on the Senate floor, less than 24 hours after the Democratic minority leader, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, said he would vote against Judge Roberts." ... "On Tuesday, [Massachusetts Senator] Mr. Kennedy said, as expected, that he would vote no, and today his fellow Massachusetts senator, John Kerry, said he would vote against Judge Roberts on the Senate floor." ... ""I still find that something is missing," Mr. Kerry said, complaining that the administration had withheld some vital information about the nominee, and that Judge Roberts had not helped matters with his answers before the committee." (1, 2) -By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and David D. Kirkpatrick -NYTimes

20050916

John Roberts - Politics - "Roberts tries to reassure: 'I am not an ideologue': Confirmation as chief justice appears certain after four days of Senate hearings." ... "With his confirmation as chief justice virtually assured, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts Jr. wrapped up four days of confirmation hearings Thursday with a reassurance for nervous Democrats: "I am not an ideologue."" ... "The Senate Judiciary Committee, which spent nearly 20 hours grilling Roberts on issues including abortion rights, affirmative action, capital punishment and wartime powers, assigned Roberts some weekend homework — answering additional questions in writing." ... "The committee's 10 Republicans and eight Democrats are expected to forward his nomination to the full Senate late next week, leaving time for a confirmation vote before the court begins hearing cases again Oct. 3." -By Patty Reinert with contributions by Alexis Grant -HoustonChronicle.com
John Roberts - - "Roberts's performance in hearings leaves Democrats with 'dilemma'." ... "Senate Democrats are deeply conflicted about how to vote on the nomination of Judge John Roberts Jr. to be the 17th chief justice of the United States, and appear divided about how, and whether, to use their vote to send a message to President George W. Bush as he selects a candidate to fill a second Supreme Court vacancy." ... ""That's a critical part of this conversation," Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Thursday, when asked if he hoped to send a message to Bush about the next nominee. "We understand that this is the first of two vacancies on a court that's so evenly divided that one bad choice could make a - from my point of view - could have an impact for a long time."" -By Sheryl Gay Stolberg -NYTimes via -IHT.com

20050915

John Roberts - Sandra Day O'Connor - GOV - Politics - Secrets - "For Roberts, path to high court splits candor, caution: Democratic senators have struggled to glean Chief Justice nominee John Roberts's personal views." ... "As one of the most respected advocates practicing before the US Supreme Court, John Roberts held that a good lawyer should be able to argue either side of a case." ... "Now he's using a variation of that same strategy and all the skills he honed under intense High Court questioning to try to win Senate confirmation as the 17th chief justice of the United States." ... "His plan: reveal just enough information about his approach to judging to convince the senators of his integrity and constitutional expertise - but not enough to permit someone to forecast how he might vote once on the high court." ... "Roberts isn't just fighting for himself. If he is successful in holding that line he will help set the stage for the president's next high court nominee - the pick that will replace centrist Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and potentially swing the court to the right." -By Warren Richey -CSMonitor

20050819

CA - - Archives - John Roberts - - Secrets - - "Roberts Showed Conservative Stripes Early." ... ""While some of the tales of woe emanating from the Court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren are expected to and do take the entire summer off," Roberts wrote on April 19, 1983, in a memo to Fielding, his boss at the time." ... "He went on to say: "The generally accepted notion that the Court can only hear roughly 150 cases a year gives the same sense of reassurance as the adjournment of the court in July, when we know the Constitution is safe for the summer."" ... "The memo and other materials made public Thursday by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., and the National Archives completed the disclosure of more than 50,000 pages that cover Roberts' tenure as a lawyer in the White House counsel's office from 1982-86." ... "Nearly 2,000 more pages from the same period have been withheld on national security or privacy grounds." (1, 2) -By Jesse J. Holland with contributions by Jesse J. Holland and Andrew Taylor -AP via -WashingtonPost
John Roberts - Archives - - - "Roberts Opposed Some Sex-Discrimination Remedies, Files Show." ... "U.S. Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. criticized some remedies for sexual discrimination and disputed a high court standard used to overturn laws that treat women differently, memos he wrote in the 1980s show." ... "Roberts, who if confirmed by the Senate would replace the Supreme Court's first female justice, questioned whether ``encouraging homemakers to become lawyers contributes to the common good.'' In another memo among 38,000 pages of documents released yesterday by the National Archives in Washington, Roberts termed some state efforts to end sex discrimination in the workplace ``highly objectionable.''" -Bloomberg

20050812

John G. Roberts Jr. - Kansas - Abortion - - - - "`Summer of Mercy' becomes an issue in Roberts confirmation." ... "In 1991 John Roberts was a young federal official confronted with a growing crisis in Wichita, Kan [Kansas]." ... "Anti-abortion protesters in Wichita were attempting to shut down the city's abortion clinics." ... "The "Summer of Mercy" protests heightened community tensions, so much so that a federal judge in Wichita ordered U.S. Marshals to keep the clinic open." ... "Roberts, representing the administration of President George H.W. Bush, had a choice: let the judge's ruling stand, or fight it. He chose to intervene." -By Alan Bjerga -Knight Ridder via -MercuryNews
John G. Roberts Jr. - Abortion - AD News - - "Abortion Rights Group Withdraws Roberts Ad." ... "An abortion rights group is withdrawing a heavily criticized television ad that linked John Roberts to violent anti-abortion activists, saying its attempt to illuminate the Supreme Court nominee's record has been "misconstrued."" ... ""We regret that many people have misconstrued our recent advertisement about Mr. Roberts' record," NARAL President Nancy Keenan said." ... "Keenan's response said the group would replace the ad with one that "examines Mr. Roberts' record on several points, including his advocacy for overturning Roe v. Wade, his statement questioning the right to privacy, and his arguments against using a federal civil rights law to protect women and their doctors and nurses from those who use blockades and intimidation."" -By Jesse J. Holland with contributions by Pauline Jelinek -AP via-WashingtonPost
John G. Roberts Jr. - Abortion - AD News - - "Abortion rights group launches campaign against Bush nominee." ... "The 30-second advert, funded by Naral Pro-Choice America, stems from a supreme court case during the first Bush administration when - as an assistant to the solicitor general - Mr Roberts successfully argued that a federal civil rights law should not be used to prevent anti-abortion protesters from blocking access to women's clinics." ... "The advert, which is being shown on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and several local stations, opens with images showing the devastation following the bombing of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in January 1998." ... "Walter Dellinger, a senior lawyer in the Clinton administration and longtime Naral supporter, said he had disagreed with Roberts' argument in the Bray case but considered it unfair to give "the impression that Roberts is somehow associated with clinic bombers"." -Jamie Wilson -AP via -Guardian.co.uk

20050811

John G. Roberts Jr. - Sandra Day O'Connor - Archives - PA - - - "In '81, Roberts Offered Counsel to O'Connor: As Aide to Attorney General, He Urged Nominee to Be Reserved in Sharing Legal Views." ... "Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. once urged a previous nominee, Sandra Day O'Connor, not to tell members of Congress how she might vote in cases likely to come before the court." ... "It is one of several hundred [documents] disclosed late yesterday on the National Archives and Records Administration Web site that reflect his outlook regarding what a justice should say or do." ... "The documents released yesterday were the third collection disclosed by the archives in response to Freedom of Information Act requests seeking any documents written, approved, initialed or signed by Roberts during his tenure at the Justice Department in two jobs eight years apart." ... "Yesterday, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, prodded the White House to release other documents -- related to Roberts's tenure as associate White House legal counsel from 1982 to 1986 -- "without delay." Administration officials have said they are still reviewing the documents partly to assess whether they contain material that will prove to be controversial." -By Jo Becker and R. Jeffrey Smith with contributions by Amy Goldstein-WashingtonPost
John G. Roberts Jr. - - - - Archives - "Bush Order Lets Him Control Roberts' Memos: A 2001 decree gives him the power to block the release of papers from presidential libraries, among them those of the high court nominee." ... "A little-noticed order issued by President Bush almost four years ago gives White House lawyers the right to block the release of memos written by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. when he worked for President Reagan." ... "The order, signed by Bush in November 2001, said the "incumbent president" had the right to approve the release of papers from the presidential libraries of his father, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan." ... "It set off a furor at the time among historians, archivists and librarians. They said it all but repealed the Presidential Records Act, a 1978 law that decreed a president's records were public property, not the private property of the former president. Under this law, a former president's papers were to be opened to the public 12 years after he left office. Exceptions could be made for national security reasons." (1, 2) -By David G. Savage and Maura Reynolds with contributions by Catherine Sailliant -LAtimes
John G. Roberts Jr. - CA - Abortion - - - "Boxer demands Roberts support abortion, privacy." ... "[California] Sen. Barbara Boxer said she would vote against John Roberts' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, if she remains convinced he doesn't support abortion rights." ... "Boxer, fearing a more conservative court could lead "to the days of back alley illegal abortions," said pointedly of President Bush's pick to succeed Justice Sandra Day o'Connor: "Judge Roberts cannot duck this issue."" -By David Kravets -AP via -MercuryNews
John G. Roberts Jr. - Abortion - AD News - - - "Roberts' stand on clinic protests attacked in abortion-rights ad: A spot airing nationally becomes the first flash point since nomination." ... "An ad that a leading abortion-rights organization began running Wednesday on national television, opposing the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts as one "whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans," quickly became the first flash point in the 3-week-old confirmation process." ... "Several prominent abortion-rights supporters and a neutral media watchdog group said the ad was misleading and unfair, and a conservative group quickly took to the airwaves with a counter advertisement." -By Linda Greenhouse -NYTimes via -HoustonChronicle.com
John G. Roberts Jr. - Marketing - Vermont - - "Sen. Leahy: Roberts ads a waste of money." ... "The Senate Judiciary Committee's top Democrat assailed advocacy-group commercials for and against Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, suggesting they won't sway senators weighing his confirmation." ... "In an interview with The Associated Press this week, [Vermont Senator Patrick] Leahy said he regretted the presidential campaign-style broadcast advertisements and said he didn't think anybody should take a hard line — either way — until Roberts has been heard at confirmation hearings beginning Sept. 6." -By Christopher Graff -AP via -OregonLive.com

20050810

John G. Roberts Jr. - - - "Roberts Endorsed for U.S. Supreme Court by Manufacturers Group." ... "U.S. Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. won the endorsement of the National Association of Manufacturers, a business trade group he once represented as a private litigator." ... "The Supreme Court endorsement is the first ever by the 110- year-old trade group, which represents more than 12,000 companies." -By Greg Stohr -Bloomberg
John G. Roberts Jr. - Abortion - Religion - Executions - Secrets - NY - - "Parties Ask if More Roberts Surprises Wait." ... "Senate Democrats are accusing the White House of delaying the release of Roberts' paperwork to ensure Republicans aren't blindsided by information that could hurt his confirmation. "The time for such partisan review of documents was before the nomination of Judge Roberts to the Supreme Court," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. [New York]" ... "Last week the Justice Department said it would not give the Senate internal records from 16 cases in which Roberts dealt with such issues as abortion, affirmative action, school prayer and capital punishment." -By Jesse J. Holland -AP via -SFGate.com
John G. Roberts Jr. - - - "Democrats push White House for more on Roberts." ... "As lawmakers prepared for a new stack of documents tracing John Roberts' career, Senate Democrats pushed the White House on Wednesday to release more material giving a clearer view of the Supreme Court nominee's legal philosophy." ... "Some panel Democrats also voiced concern that the administration was screening documents for potential political liabilities before handing them over." ... "White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the administration had said from the start it would have a "quick review" of documents "for any national security, personal privacy or other privacy concerns.""-Reuters

20050720

John G. Roberts Jr. - - "Senate Democrats Withhold Judgment on Roberts." ... "Senate Democrats, who had spent weeks preparing for a full-scale fight with President Bush over a nomination to the Supreme Court, instead found themselves today weighing whether or how to do battle over his choice of John G. Roberts Jr., who appears to be more conservative than they would like, but less ideological than they feared." ... "Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, set the tone, taking pains to describe Roberts as an accomplished lawyer and "very nice man," but withholding judgment on whether he deserves to serve for the rest of his life as one of the country's nine most powerful judges." -By Maura Reynolds -LAtimes
John G. Roberts Jr. - Sandra Day O'Connor - - - - Abortion - " News Analysis: Bush aims to disarm opposition." ... "With his nomination of Judge John Roberts Jr. to the Supreme Court, President George W. Bush has moved to plant the conservative imprint on the high court that has been a central aim of his presidency, but with a choice designed to frustrate any Democratic effort to block Bush's replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor." ... "As a judge for only two years on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Roberts has a limited judicial record, which Democrats said would complicate their hopes of mounting a filibuster against him." ... "But abortion rights groups immediately cited support that Roberts had given to briefs opposing the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. The briefs were filed on behalf of the administration of Bush's father, when Roberts was the deputy solicitor general." -By Adam Nagourney -NYTimes via -IHT.com
John G. Roberts Jr. - - - - Abortion - "Clues sought in Roberts' legal record." ... "John Roberts' legal career includes a stint at the Justice Department as principal deputy solicitor general during the administration of President Bush's father, 13 years in private practice and two years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit." ... "Roberts helped write a 1990 Supreme Court brief in Rust v. Sullivan that said, "We continue to believe that Roe (v. Wade) was wrongly decided and should be overruled." The court did not address that issue, but sided with the Justice Department in ruling that doctors and clinics receiving federal funds could not talk to patients about abortion." ... "On another abortion-related issue, Roberts co-authored a government brief saying that even though Operation Rescue sought to prevent women from obtaining abortions by obstructing access to clinics, the group wasn't subject to lawsuits under federal civil rights law because the organization had not engaged in a conspiracy targeting women because of their gender." -AP via -USATODAY
John G. Roberts Jr. - - - - Marketing - "Court Nominee Heads To The Hill." ... "Abortion surfaced quickly as a flash point." ... "NARAL-Pro Choice America announced its opposition to Roberts even before Mr. Bush formally made his selection public in a prime time televised White House appearance on Tuesday. The group planned an "emergency demonstration" against the nomination across the street from the Capitol at midday." ... "On the on the other side of the political equation, Progress For America called a news conference to announce a television commercial to begin running soon. The group, which coordinates its efforts with presidential aides, pledged in advance to spend at least $18 million on advertising and grass roots activities to buttress the confirmation prospects of whomever Mr. Bush chose." (1, 2) Contributions by -AP-CBSNews
John G. Roberts Jr. - Sandra Day O'Connor - Karl Rove - - - "Bush Chooses Roberts for Court: Appeals Judge for D.C. Has Conservative Credentials." ... "President Bush nominated U.S. Court of Appeals Judge John G. Roberts Jr. for the Supreme Court last night, passing over several female candidates to replace the retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in favor of a well-regarded litigator with conservative credentials and friends in both parties." ... "Bush introduced his choice for the nation's 109th justice in a prime-time East Room ceremony broadcast live on national television after a dramatic day of shifting speculation that captivated Washington. The president hailed Roberts as an impressive legal figure who would interpret the Constitution and laws rather than legislate from the bench." ... "The nomination comes at a delicate moment for Bush's presidency, which was struggling with sagging poll numbers, a relentless war in Iraq and a stalled domestic program even before disclosures about the role of his top adviser, Karl Rove, in the CIA leak investigation. Some Republican strategists said the nomination could help the White House divert attention from the Rove scandal and reinvigorate Bush's political prospects." (1, 2) -By Peter Baker and Jim VandeHei-WashingtonPost
John G. Roberts Jr. - - Abortion - "Roberts Meets Senators From Both Parties." ... "Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts paid courtesy calls on key senators Wednesday as the White House rolled out a methodical campaign to secure his confirmation and Democrats posed their first probing questions." ... ""No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court," said Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, senior Democrat on the committee that will question the 50-year-old appeals court judge later this summer." ... "Abortion and access to internal government memos loomed as likely flash points as Democrats pointed toward the nationally televised proceedings." -By Deb Riechmann -AP via -SFGate.com

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