Roberts Agrees With Santorum: No Right to Privacy

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Wednesday August 03, 2005 · 12:14 PM PDT

2005/08/03 · 12:14

Now we know:

[Roberts] approvingly quoted from a dissenting opinion by Justice Hugo Black in a 1965 court decision, in which the majority held that a Connecticut law forbidding the use of contraceptives was unconstitutional. Black's opinion, as cited in the draft, complained that the court had used "a loose, flexible, uncontrolled standard for holding laws unconstitutional." The draft article said that "the broad range of rights which are now alleged to be 'fundamental' by litigants, with only the most tenuous connection the to Constitution, bears ample witness to the dangers of this doctrine."
. . . A second memo, sent by Roberts to the attorney general on Dec. 11, 1981, summarized a lecture six years earlier by then- Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold at Washington and Lee University, which touched on the same theme. Griswold's lecture, Roberts said, "devotes a section to the so-called 'right to privacy,' arguing as we have that such an amorphous right is not to be found in the Constitution. He specifically criticizes Roe v. Wade."

According to Roberts, the government has no barrier to intruding upon the most personal aspects of our lives and bodies.

Roberts, unless he expressly states that he will not overturn Griswold and Roe, must be filibustered.

There is no other way.

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