Posted on 09/15/2005 1:23:11 PM PDT by austinite
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s testimony about the existence of a right to privacy, the importance of respecting precedent, and the need for the Constitution to adapt to changing conditions has alarmed some rank-and-file conservatives, who are filling up Internet message boards with predictions that Roberts may turn out to be a moderate justice.
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Does the Boston Globe actually know any conservatives?
Good! It's working. Let's vote!
Yeah, considering the source of the story, I'm not alarmed.
WE sure fooled them......big time.......BUMP
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But Richard Fallon, a professor at Harvard Law School who identifies himself as a liberal, said the rank-and-file conservatives may be succumbing to paranoia.
''Even the purest originalists on the Supreme Court recognize that there are exceptions," Fallon said. ''So when somebody like Roberts says there are exceptions and some room for evolutionary understanding, he's not necessarily saying anything more than Scalia or Thomas would say."
I feel better knowing that the Boston Globe is looking out for us conservatives.
Conservatives may not like that Griswald resulted in Roe, but I can't understand how any American can deny that the underlying foundation of the Constitution, is a right to privacy.
From Free Exercise to Fourth Amendment rights, it's all about privacy.
I think he will be closer to Scalia!
The libs on the Judicial Committee look bad on this one and this is the Globe's lame attempt to put a positive spin on their getting crushed by Roberts intellect.
***the need for the Constitution to adapt to changing conditions***
Good! That's how Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Keep the Government out of private business and things!
Don't worry, Roberts is just doing what he has to do to get this farce over with. If you read between the lines, he's just using generalities that liberals are reading their wishes into.
Exactly. We may not like how the right to privacy has been abused, but nearly everything in the Bill of Rights stems from a right to be left alone.
Nothing like having a TROLL posting on FreeRepublic just so the Liberal Media can quote them.
Consider that as a devout Catholic, Roberts would send Roe back to the states if it came up. Anyone dis-agree?
Right. How the hell would they know? Just more BS from the Globe.
The real leap is from a right to privacy to the right to do any thing you please in the privacy of your home or doctor's office.
Lets see, does this allow adultry in the privacy of a brothel?
And I could see victimless crimes, (if they exist) and even crimes that are too hard to prosecute so they lead to police abuse. But abortion does affect another living being. When the being is entitled to individual rights is the issue, and it won't be found in the constitution.
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