A simple word of comfort to any liberal who might be terrified and a word of caution to any conservative who might be ecstatic at the news that John Roberts called abortion a "tragedy" during his time in the Reagan Administration....his personal views don’t matter. His brief tenure on the D.C. Court of Appeals has demonstrated that, if nothing else, he has the judicial integrity to keep his personal beliefs and prejudices out of the legal deliberative process. Judge Roberts is a jurist who will faithfully and impartially follow the law, whether that leads him in a direction which concur with his personal views or not.
If he truly does believe abortion is a "tragedy" then great, so do I. If he doesn’t that’s fine too. The one and only thing I care about is that he recognizes that his role on the federal judiciary is a limited one and that matters of policy creation and execution belong to the elected branches responsive and responsible to the American people. If he does, and of this I am confident, than his tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court will bring to that body what it too often lacks nowadays—judicial modesty.
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