Asked about that during his 2003 confirmation hearing for the appeals court, Roberts said the 1973 ruling was "the settled law of the land."
Roberts will vote to dump Roe in my judgment. Roberts had a mature informed legal intellectual mind at a young age. Minds like that don't change much over the years in my experience, absent some personal crisis, and none is in evidence with Roberts.
Just my reading of the tea leaves.
Article> When it was suggested that the president send a letter to the Irish ambassador on stationery bearing the letterhead "An Teach Ban" — Gaelic for The White House — Roberts said he had no objection. But he wanted the translation checked carefully.
"For all I know it means 'Free the IRA,'" he wrote.
Interesting juxtaposition...since Roberts' comment reminded me of the time in WWII that the British hired a tea merchant to create propaganda leaflets to drop. When they had no success, they checked the translation and found that the leaflets read "Buy Abdul's Tea" or something like that. :-)
I often wonder what Asian language tattoos or t-shirts really say, when I have seen Japanese wearing t-shirts that say things like "Screen door" or whatever.