Hatching Roe
It seems that Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has decided that it is now OK to discuss Roe v. Wade during the Roberts hearings. Can I be the only person surprised by this?
Ignited by Andrew Purvis at 7:13 PM
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Ignited by Andrew Purvis at 7:13 PM
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Brownback stated on Friday in a live interview that he did not think Roe should come up and expressed his hope that it would not. That he came in on the secondfull day of questioning and participated in that very discussion is a little disingenuous. Feinstein was posturing, as were the other seventeen, for constituent support, and I suspect it worked on the whole.
Overall, I think that Roberts managed a delicate balance in his replies, particularly in the convoluted questioning by Schumer about whether the Constituion provided "substantive" protections for (a right to) privacy or guaranteed a "general right to privacy." The two danced around the specific language and a 2003 decision written by Thomas for a good five minutes, and I have to say that Feinstein should be safe in voting to move Roberts to a floor vote.
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