How John Roberts could change your life
On the Supreme Court docket this fall are cases involving assisted suicide, police searches and military recruiting on college campuses
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
Updated: 12:26 p.m. ET Aug. 8, 2005
Swap John Roberts for Sandra Day O'Connor and what do you get?
The answers will come in hundreds of cases over the next 25 or 30 years, if the Senate confirms his nomination to the Supreme Court.
But the Roberts Effect will begin to emerge in what he says during oral arguments on the cases that are on the court's docket for the term that begins Oct. 3, and in the opinions he writes in those cases.
From the right of doctors to help people commit suicide to the powers of the police to search our homes, Roberts's votes will shape the rules under which Americans live. [...] Read the rest at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8826595/
© Virginia Metze
By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC
Updated: 12:26 p.m. ET Aug. 8, 2005
Swap John Roberts for Sandra Day O'Connor and what do you get?
The answers will come in hundreds of cases over the next 25 or 30 years, if the Senate confirms his nomination to the Supreme Court.
But the Roberts Effect will begin to emerge in what he says during oral arguments on the cases that are on the court's docket for the term that begins Oct. 3, and in the opinions he writes in those cases.
From the right of doctors to help people commit suicide to the powers of the police to search our homes, Roberts's votes will shape the rules under which Americans live. [...] Read the rest at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8826595/
© Virginia Metze
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