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To: gondramB
Hopefully Roberts will correctly recognize a right to privacy but not apply that to abortion.

Check yesterday's transcript. There was a long exchange about right to privacy. (I think it was with Shumer, but all the Dems kind of merge in memory.) Roberts maintained that there is a constitutionally protected right to privacy (or several -- he went into 4th amendment, and 1st amendment freedom of religion at least). The exchange (too combative to be an actual discussion) got down to "general" right of privacy vs. "substantive" right of privacy, but I found it hard to follow. Shumer (if it was him) was trying to get Roberts to say whether he agreed or disagreed with a statement from Thomas, but his use of terms sounded slippery to me, and it got tedious.

67 posted on 09/15/2005 5:25:14 AM PDT by maryz
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To: maryz

"Shumer (if it was him) was trying to get Roberts to say whether he agreed or disagreed with a statement from Thomas, but his use of terms sounded slippery to me, and it got tedious."


Yeah...I can't decide if he is supremely reasonably and brillianty prepared or both of those plus much less conservative than President Bush's base.


But we are bound to find out as there is no reasonable basis for filibustering him and he will surely survive an up or down vote.


85 posted on 09/15/2005 8:45:55 AM PDT by gondramB ("Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do to achieve what they want to achieve)
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