[Mb-civic] Democrats Feel Heat From Left On Roberts - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Democrats Feel Heat From Left On Roberts
Groups Say Fight Should Be Stronger

By Charles Babington and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, August 17, 2005; Page A01

Major liberal groups accused Democratic senators yesterday of showing 
too little stomach for opposing John G. Roberts Jr.'s Supreme Court 
nomination, saying newly released documents indicate he is much more 
conservative than many people first thought.

The response was quick and pointed, as two key senators unleashed their 
sharpest criticisms yet of Roberts and sought to assure activists that 
the battle is far from over.

<>Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the Judiciary Committee's ranking 
Democrat, said in a statement: "Those papers that we have received paint 
a picture of John Roberts as an eager and aggressive advocate of 
policies that are deeply tinged with the ideology of the far right wing 
of his party then, and now. In influential White House and Department of 
Justice positions, John Roberts expressed views that were among the most 
radical being offered by a cadre intent on reversing decades of policies 
on civil rights, voting rights, women's rights, privacy, and access to 
justice."

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