Comments on: Roberts’ Wife Holds Strong Antiabortion Views

By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:51:39 +0000

He sleeps on the "right" side of the bed also. Let's oppose him.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:40:05 +0000

I've heard his goldfish favors gun control.

By: jdsgjn

jdsgjn — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:42:32 +0000

It is clear that this Roberts fellow is pro-choice--irregardless of his wife's views.

By: Jonathan Robertson

Jonathan Robertson — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:02:56 +0000

You forgot a permutation. He believes abortion should be legal but that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overturned. That would be a progressive originalist (a la Scalia) who thought abortion was a state law not federal or privacy issue. I guess that as someone relatively liberal in my views, I couldn't fall in love with someone who is a believer in the doctrines of the Catholic church. How ridculous is that. I agree with Steve "So this idea that Robertsâ wife has strong views on a topic, therefore Roberts must also have strong views is just stupid." Or as Scalia said in his speech in March "A pox on both their houses."

By: Beldar

Beldar — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:58:13 +0000

Personal belief that abortion is wrong (as a matter of policy, ethics, etc.) is not a prerequisite for concluding that Roe and its progeny were wrongly decided and should be overruled. It's entirely possible (and internally consistent) that an individual might vote to legalize abortion were he a legislator, yet vote to overrule Roe were he a judge. Judge Roberts is clearly capable of making this distinction, as it's precisely the distinction he drew in the Hedgespeth "french fry" case, in which he declined the invitation to overturn as unconstitutional the DC Metro's extremely foolish zero tolerance policy that led to the twelve-year-old girl's arrest for eating one french fry.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:26:46 +0000

Oh for crying outloud this is getting ridiculous. I tell you I just can't help shaking the fact that many on the Left is unhinged (like how many on the Right were unhinged with Clinton). So Robert's wife has strong views big whoop.

I happen to think abortion should be legal. I have some issue with Roe v. Wade, but not sufficient to make it a big deal for me. My wife on the other hand is much, much more hostile to abortion than I am. Same thing with gay marriage (she's opposed, I could care less).

So this idea that Roberts' wife has strong views on a topic, therefore Roberts must also have strong views is just stupid.

By: Don Surber

Don Surber — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:30:49 +0000

Wasn't the man who wrote Roe-Wade Catholic?

By: Zsa Zsa

Zsa Zsa — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:03:46 +0000

Does this mean more filibustering?...