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The Supreme Court has been under attack since the 2020 election, with protests outside the homes of judges, an unprecedented leak, and now scrutiny in the professions of family members. SCOTUS released its report earlier this month into who might have leaked the draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito concerning returning the question of abortion back to the states. The report did not find the leak, but one lawmaker has expressed an opinion on the matter.Now there is a question about the professional work of one of the justices’ wives. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’s wife could face...

Norwegian authorities on Monday defended the actions of guards from a German cruise ship that killed a polar bear that had attacked and injured a crew member, saying they at first tried to scare it away. Police spokesman Ole Jakob Malmo said two members of the 12-man crew that set foot on the most northern island of the Svalbard archipelago ahead of tourists on Saturday first tried to ward off the bear "by shouting and making loud noises as well as firing a signal pistol, but to no effect." A 42-year-old German man who was not identified sustained minor head...

Today The Senete Confirmed The President's pick for Chief Justice of the United States Judge John Roberts. The Senate voted 78-22 to confirm Roberts. Later in the day he was sworn in by Justice Stevens in the East Room of the White House. John Roberts watched the vote with the President and had luncheon with the President at the White House prior to the swearing in ceromonies. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld attended a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill Yesterday Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke at a dinner of the Global Business Coalition on HIV-AIDS in...

One of the great challenges of motherhood is keeping your composure when your kid begins jerking around in public. This year's grand prize winner may be Jane Roberts, wife of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005 NRO's Lopez on Feminists for Life I mentioned Feminists for Life in one of yesterday's posts (please page down and see below - someday, I'll get those "Permanent Links" working). If you want to hear yesterday's show use this link. For some reason, On Point chose not to "Feature" this interview on their main web page. Today's National Review Online published a piece by one of my favorite reporters, Katheryn Jean Lopez. As she says, Justice John Roberts and his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts have already made history. What a problem Mrs. Roberts' involvement as legal...

I am a married man, and if I know anything from day-to-day experience, it is that you cannot infer a man's politics from those of his wife. This truth came home to me again in a discussion about the politics of Jane Sullivan Roberts, the spouse of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. Over breakfast, I mentioned that Ms. Roberts has been active in a group called Feminists for Life.

I am no bachelor, and if I know anything from day-to-day or indeed minute-by-minute experience, it is that you cannot infer a man's politics from those of his wife. Another proof of this truth came home for me the other morning in a discussion about the politics of Jane Sullivan Roberts, the spouse of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Over breakfast, I mentioned that Ms. Roberts had been active in a group called Feminists for Life. "I don't think you can be a feminist and try to force women to have babies they don't want," my wife, Marion, said. That...

I mentioned Leonard Leo in a previous post but didn't go into much detail about him. I'm well aware of who he is and wrongly assumed that every reader would as well. Fortunately, Confirm Them (cross-posted at Southern Appeal) has stepped up to the plate to provide a little more information on Leo. He's Executive Vice President of the Federalist Society as well as the chairman of Catholic Outreach for the Republican Party.The conservative Catholic Site BeliefNet has some very interesting things to say about Roberts and his family:If Catholics in America tend to fall into two broad categories--those who...

The fact that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' wife does free legal work for an anti-abortion group should not be relevant to his confirmation hearing, a Senate Republican leader said Monday. Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said Jane Roberts' work for Feminists for Life should have no influence on her husband's decisions as a justice. Santorum is one of the Senate's most outspoken abortion opponents. "My wife has opinions on things that may or may conform with mine and I think most couples are in that situation," Santorum said on NBC's "Today" show. "I don't...

Some pro-abortion groups are fretting about the pro-life activities of Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts. But no less a pro-abortion liberal than Senator Ted Kennedy told reporters this week that Jane Roberts' anti-abortion work "ought to be out of bounds." According to the New York Times, some pro-lifers think her activities provide a clear signal that she's in their camp, while pro-abortionists fear that this is indeed the case. With such a strongly pro-life wife, some are suggesting that Judge Roberts not only shares her views but also would act on them to seek to...

Wife of Nominee Holds Strong Antiabortion Views By Richard A. Serrano, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — While Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s views on abortion triggered intense debate on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, there is no mistaking where his wife stands: Jane Sullivan Roberts, a lawyer, is ardently against abortion. A Roman Catholic like her husband, Jane Roberts has been deeply involved in the antiabortion movement. She provides her name, money and professional advice to a small Washington organization — Feminists for Life of America — that offers counseling and educational programs. The group has filed legal briefs...

Judge John G. Roberts has left little hard evidence of his views on abortion in recent years and is widely expected to try to avoid the issue in his coming confirmation hearings. But there is little mystery about the views of his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, a Roman Catholic lawyer from the Bronx whose pro bono work for Feminists for Life is drawing intense interest in the ideologically charged environment of a Supreme Court confirmation debate.

John Roberts' Wife Involved With Pro-Life Women's Group Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Supreme Court nominee John Roberts appears to be pro-life in his views about the issue of abortion, but the philosophy his wife has on the topic is crystal clear. Attorney Jane Sullivan Roberts has been associated with the pro-life group Feminists for Life of America for more than a decade. Mrs. Roberts, an attorney at the high-powered Washington law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, currently serves as the pro bono legal counsel for the organization, which focuses on how abortion is a disservice to women. From 1995...

In 1998, two teenage girls -- one pregnant, one a new mother -- sued a Kentucky school district because officials there, hoping to send teens a message about unwed motherhood, denied them admission to the National Honor Society. In an affidavit filed in the case, Serrin M. Foster, president of the group Feminists for Life, argued that the school district's policy would ''encourage students to hide their pregnancies and not seek prenatal care... and instead obtain an abortion, or, worst of all, commit neonatal infanticide." Foster's affidavit was written by a technology attorney named Jane Sullivan Roberts, the wife of...

A new Supreme Court nominee means another chance to stoke the incendiary debate on the issue of abortion. But for the lawyer wife of Federal Judge John G. Roberts Jr., the matter is clearly settled. While Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s views on abortion triggered intense debate on Capitol Hill this week, there was no mistaking where his wife stands: Jane Sullivan Roberts, a lawyer, is ardently against abortion. A Catholic like her husband, Jane Roberts has been deeply involved in the pro-life movement. She lends her name, money and professional advice to a small Washington-based organization -...

WASHINGTON — While Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s views on abortion triggered intense debate on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, there is no mistaking where his wife stands: Jane Sullivan Roberts, a lawyer, is ardently against abortion. A Roman Catholic like her husband, Jane Roberts has been deeply involved in the antiabortion movement. She provides her name, money and professional advice to a small Washington organization — Feminists for Life of America — that offers counseling and educational programs. The group has filed legal briefs before the high court challenging the constitutionality of abortion. A spouse's views normally are...

by E. L. Core Other Articles by E. L. Core Robed In Humility? 07/21/05 A vivid phrase has been used to describe the Supreme Court of the United States: "nine scorpions in a bottle." If only they would stay there. But they do not. They have been, as a body, insinuating themselves into every aspect of everybody's everyday life, usurping matters of policy that by right belong to the other branches of the federal government, and matters of law that by right ought to belong to state and local governments. Like the incoming tide that slowly advances farther with each passing...

A Roman Catholic like her husband, Jane Roberts has been deeply involved in the antiabortion movement. She provides her name, money and professional advice to a small Washington organization — Feminists for Life of America — that offers counseling and educational programs. The group has filed legal briefs before the high court challenging the constitutionality of abortion. .... Feminists for Life has sponsored a national advertising campaign aimed at ending abortion in America. One of its mission statements proclaims: "Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women. Women deserve better than abortion." Jane Roberts was...

Supreme Court nominee Judge John Roberts has made conflicting statements over the years on Roe v Wade - calling it "settled law" during his 2003 appellate court confirmation hearings but "wrongly decided" while he served as deputy solicitor general. There's no doubt, however, where his wife comes down on the hotbutton issue of abortion. "The role of his lawyer wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, in Feminists for Life, a group dedicated to overturning Roe v. Wade, is . . . certain to raise liberal eyebrows," reports today's Boston Globe. In fact, Mrs. Roberts once served as executive vice president for the...

[ home | archives | e-mail ] Life In the Family [Kathryn Jean Lopez  07/19 08:16 PM]Since the Washington Post wrote about Bush's women and abortion today, how about Judge Roberts's? John Roberts's wife, Jane, has served as executive vice president of Feminists for Life (one of my favorite groups).