Justice John G. Roberts
Born 1955 in Buffalo, NY
Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit
Nominated by George W. Bush on January 7, 2003, to a seat vacated by James L. Buckley; Confirmed by the Senate on May 8, 2003, and received commission on June 2, 2003.
Education:
Harvard College, A.B., 1976
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1979
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Henry Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1979-1980
Law clerk, Associate Justice William Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States, 1980-1981
Special assistant to the attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1981-1982
Associate counsel to the president, White House Counsel's Office, 1982-1986
Private practice, Washington, DC, 1986-1989, 1993-2003
Principal deputy solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1989-1993
Thoughts on his apparent anti-abortion stance? Apparently he signed a brief or something in 1973 that argued for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
posted by S at 6:10 PM
3 Comments:
He's bad on abortion (I'm pro-choice) but anyone Bush nominated would be. That particular brief he signed off on was in his role as an administration counsel and what he was doing was no different from what Ginsberg did when she worked for the ACLU. Roberts probably is anti-Roe (so am I - bad law that got a good result), but you can't use that to prove it.
Yeah! Roberts! Let the fun begin.
Regarding abortion and murder, that depends entirely upon your belief of (a) what constitutes "life" and (b) what constitutes "personhood." I believe that those are the two main arguments surrounding the modern abortion issue.
I was talking with Glen and a few others about this at the seminar. I'm somewhere in-between actually; I think abortion is ok sometimes, but that depends on how far developed the fetus is. For me, brainwave activity seems like a fair standard, especially since we often use that to determine whether a person is still clinically alive.
It's definitely a hard issue though.
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