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During Senate confirmation hearings in 2003, Roberts stressed that he had no personal issue with applying the precedent of Roe v. Wade, which he called "the settled law of the land." But during his stint as Principal Deputy Solicitor General from 1989 to 1993, Roberts co-authored briefs in two controversial Supreme Court cases, one that upheld federal rules prohibiting clinics that received federal dollars from even discussing abortions and another that helped to successfully defend pro-life protesters who had blocked entry to abortion clinics against charges that they had thereby violated the rights of women. "We continue...
...known public statements on abortion: his circuit court confirmation hearing—in which he said that, as an appeals judge, he would uphold Supreme Court precedent—and a 1991 brief he signed on behalf of the first Bush administration while he was Deputy Solicitor General. The brief said that “we continue to believe that Roe [v. Wade] was wrongly decided and should be overruled...
Roberts later worked in the offices of the Attorney General and the White House Counsel during the Reagan administration, in addition to serving as principal deputy solicitor general under Kenneth W. Starr in the first Bush Administration...
...view...there is no better appellate advocate than John Roberts,” Walter E. Dellinger III, who served as solicitor general under former President Bill Clinton, told the Judiciary Committee...
...view...there is no better appellate advocate than John Roberts,” Walter E. Dellinger, III, who served as Solicitor General under President Bill Clinton, told the Judiciary Committee...