Chief Justice

It has been confirmed that the Court will be moving hard to the right.

As a younger man, Roberts was an advocate for pinched notions of voting rights, affirmative action, women's rights, and civil rights. If Bush had permitted a peek at Roberts's record in his father's administration there would have been more evidence that his views continued into the 1990s. His testimony pledging fealty to the ''rule of law" applied to individual cases, and his statements respecting precedents and past decisions he has ''no quarrel" with were artful dodges to Kennedy. His analogy with a baseball umpire's task was inaccurate and fatuous.