I checked into Bush's nominee quickly. Ladies, can you feel your rights slipping away?

(no links I'm busy!)

Roe v Wade

"We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled. ...the Court's conclusions in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion and that government has no compelling interest in protecting prenatal human life throughout pregnancy find no support in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution."

Environmental regulation.

Roberts has taken positions against government environmental regulation. Roberts argued against the private citizen's right to sue the federal government for violations of environmental regulations.

Roberts has also argued for the National Mining Association in support of mountaintop removal. Hopefully the Frist and TN constituency will voice their opinions on this matter, and well as VA, NC, et cetera...

I ran across this earlier today and dug it up...

Roberts concurred with the majority in upholding the arrest, handcuffing and detention of a 12-year-old girl for eating a single French fry inside a Washington Metro station. "No one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation," Roberts acknowledged in the decision, but he ruled that nothing the police did violated the girl's Fourth Amendment or Fifth Amendment rights.

OK, here is one link from the Aliance for Justice

My opinion is that this will be a fight and the rules of the Senate will be changed in order to end the filibuster; as I've maintained since the 'compromise'. This is the Dems fault, they have no principle. They could and should have stood up for the merits of the Constitution, the basic ideas of a bicameral legislature, and the essential rights necessary in a legitimate democracy that protects the majority from the tyranny of a majority; but they flinched, and now America (well at least half) will pay.

This was obviously done in a hurry and to deflect the American public's outrage re: the leaking of a covert and operating CIA agent, and it will for now. Such a desperate move is comforting because this supports claims that Fitzgerald is seeking some major indictments over the leak case.