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September 14, 2005
Judicial Confirmation Network counsel Wendy E. Long made the following comments this morning:
"Judge Roberts has continued in his second day of questioning to display his faithfulness to the Constitution and to the judicial self-restraint that the Framers of the Constitution relied on judges to exercise so that our system of government could work. He testified that the Constitution contains terms and principles that apply to new conditions of today -- but not that those terms and principles can be ignored or effectively rewritten by the courts. He refused to concur, for example, with Senator Specter's assertion that abortion is a form of liberty protected by the due process clause."
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