2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, July 25, 2005

Roberts is nominated
to replace O'Connor

UP, UP AND AWAY

Conservatives support
President Bush's choice to
nominate John Roberts
for the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme
Court nominee John Roberts picked
up fresh compliments from Sen-
ate Republicans last Friday - and
advice from a Democrat who voted
against him previously to be more
forthright in answering lawmakers'
questions.
Anti-abortion groups reaffirmed
their support for the 50-year-old
appellate judge despite the lack of
any statement of his personal views
on the subject.
"We don't know what's going to
happen in the future, but no con-
structionist judge is going to believe
that it's OK to murder babies," said
Tony Newman, president of Opera-
tion Rescue.
Roberts paid courtesy calls on
members of the Senate Judiciary
Committee for a third day as Presi-
dent Bush renewed his request that
the nominee be confirmed before
the Supreme Court's new term
begins Oct. 3.
The Senate should "give this good
man a fair hearing and a vote as
quickly as possible," the president
said in Atlanta.
No dates have been set for Judi-
ciary Committee hearings on Bush's
pick to fill the first vacancy on the
high court in 11 years.
The hearings are expected to be held

in late August or early September.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the
Senate's No. 2 Democrat, said he
voted against Roberts in committee
for his appeals court seat two years
ago partly because he did not feel
the nominee fully answered sena-
tors' questions.
"I urged Judge Roberts, as far as
he can legally within the cannons of
ethics, to be forthcoming and honest
with his answers," Durbin said after
their meeting last Friday. "If he is
open and honest, I think it will go a
long way."
There was upbeat Republican
talk after Roberts's meetings with
Majority Whip Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., and GOP Sens. Jeff Sessions
of Alabama and Tom Coburn of
Oklahoma.
Sessions, whose own nomination to
the federal bench was scuttled by Dem-
ocrats before his election to the Senate,
said Roberts "has the very natural
qualities to make a superior judge."
Coburn said he would have pre-
ferred a nominee he knew would
vote to reverse the Roe v. Wade
abortion decision, but he also said it
was critical to get someone "who's
on the side of the Constitution and
its strict interpretation."
"My litmus test is, do they believe
in the limited role of the court in
terms of following and interpret-
ing the Constitution and not mak-
ing policy," Coburn said. "and I'm
convinced right now that he is inter-
ested in limiting their decisions to
what constitutionally they're sup-
posed to do."

Anti-abortion conservatives were
bitterly disappointed with the first Pres-
ident Bush's choice of David Souter.
John Paul Stevens, Anthony Ken-
nedy and the retiring Sandra Day
O'Connor also were Republican
Supreme Court appointees who
voted to uphold Roe v. Wade.
Roberts told the Judiciary Com-
mittee during his 2003 confirmation
hearing: "Roe v. Wade is the settled
law of the land. ... There is nothing
in my personal views that would
prevent me from fully and faithfully
applying that precedent.
However, he also helped write a
legal brief for a Supreme Court case
while serving as deputy solicitor
general in the administration of the
first President Bush.
"Roe was wrongly decided and
should be overruled," it said in part.
"The pro-life community is famil-
iar with some of his work and the
work of his wife," Newman said.
Roberts's wife, Jane Sullivan Rob-
erts, is legal counsel for Feminists
for Life of America and served as
executive vice president on its board
of directors from 1995-99, accord-
ing to the group's website.
It comes down to trust, said Aus-
tin Ruse, president of the Culture of
Life Foundation.
"We trust the president, we trust
the people who are speaking for him
... we also believe that at the heart,
this is about the Constitution, and if
someone has the right judicial atti-
tude about the Constitution, we will
trust them with the issues that we
care about," Ruse said.
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