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Show Alo HERALD DAILY Roberts advocate”for policies of the ReTo Republicans, the docu- Continued from Al ments say one thing. To Demo- are expected to and do take the entire summer off.” he wrote in 1983. The picture of Roberts, now 50 anda federal appeals court judge, emerges from nearly crats,it's somethit . “The truth is. Judge Rob. and extremely well-qualified, despitethe efforts bysome to mischaracterize him,” Sen. John 50,000 pages of Reaganera records released ahead of con- the Senate Judiciary Commit- firmation hearingsset to begin tee, said recently. in the Senate on Sept. 6. The material covers Roberts's timeas special assistant to Attorney General William French Smith from 1981-1982 and his tenure as a lawyerin the White Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who will lead the Democratic questioning of Roberts at the committee hearings, said the material shows a man who was.an “eager, aggressive — so far erts we eens wing. aneof Late et if confirmed to parhabeeiwely acy Sandra tner release eo of last at some of records from Roberts’s time ee deputy solicitor. as o:inthe administ oes capentgtte — “Faminstitutionally dieneuni mencat adopting s levied read. ting majority opinion permitting voluntary ing of a statute conferring pow- er on the president,” he wrote in prayer, then lost votes after cir- his views and wound one memo. mation pi wrote thatjudges “do not have His opinion was that Congress had the constitutional powerto strip the high court of over schoolprayer. a commission to solve sciety's pales, as they see them, but imply to decide cases before But he said it was “badpoliicy them according to the rule of and should be Ina 1982 memo to Smith, he cies the papers released wrote,“It really should not mat- he wrote when they dissented | in one case, A former clerk to Justice William H. Rehnquist, Roberts eriesoasoaty the Fgh tepeemg tndelensibl,” he wrotein 1985 of the idea that More bars in more fe)Elec yall, up on losing side. Roberts'soccasional refer- underscored his conservatism. Hereferred in a 1985 memo to the “abortion tragedy.” A legal brief he helped write while working in the first Bush administration said that Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion Asked about that during his 2003 confirmation hearing for the appeals court, Roberts said the 1973ruling was “the settled law ofthe land.” In 1981, Roberts wrote that asystem that gave somestate prisoners access to federal appeals “goes far to making a mockery ofthe entire criminal justice system.” Later, he chided the Supreme Court for being too willing to hear multiple ap- peals from death row inmates. He wrotein 1983 of the “perceived problem of gender discrimination” andcriticized manystateefforts to attack it. Thetheory of comparable worth was “staggeringly perni- cious,” he thought. A proposed Equal Rights Amendmentto the Constitution would “override the prerogatives of the states and vest the federal judiciary with broader powers.” Wherehe differed with the administration he served, he said so. “I will be everalert” to defend a policy that opposes a national ID program,he wrote. Thatsaid, he added one was needed “in the faceof the real threat to our social fabric posed by uncontrolled immigration.” Roberts showed a lawyer's caution reminiscentof the motto “Trust But Verify” that Reagan oftencited in dealing with the Soviet Union on arms control. Whenit was suggested that the president senda letter to the Irish ambassadoronstationery bearingtheletterhead “An Teach Ban” — Gaelic for The White House — Roberts said he had noobjection. But he wanted the translation checked carefully. “Forall I know it means ‘Free the IRA,’ he wrote, ie. 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