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I have always supported, and support today, equal rights for women, particularly in the workplace.

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I have always supported, and support today, equal rights for women, particularly in the workplace,

John Roberts

 

[But thorough as it may appear on television, is this week's confirmation hearing just another dose of American political theatre? Certainly, the potential chief justice hasn't been shy about ducking and dodging, refusing to comment on or pre-judge any issue that could come before the court. For example, in response to Sen. Kennedy's charge that his views on civil rights legislation were] narrow and cramped and perhaps even mean spirited, ... I don't want to express any conclusions on hypothetical questions, whether as applied in a particular case, where there would be a challenge ... Those cases come up all the time and I do need to avoid expressing an opinion on those issues.

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I was not formulating policy. I was articulating and defending the [Reagan] administration's position,

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whose ideology leads him to excuse violence against other Americans.

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The right that was protected in the assisted-suicide case was the right of the people through their legislatures to articulate their own views on the policies that should apply in those cases of terminating life, and not to have the court interfering in those policy decisions, ... That's an important right.

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The case itself is still pending, I don't think it's appropriate for me to address that.

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I think it is a jolt to the legal system when you overturn precedent. ... It is not enough that you may think that a prior decision was wrongly decided,

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I'm free to chase anything that moves, and a lot of things that don't move. The opportunities are boundless. I am, at my very core, a reporter.

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I think that civil liberties types will make an argument that the lure of chat lines may be too much. And maybe that will not be a fair use of the limited rights granted police authorities to use entrapments.

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