Documents Paint Roberts As Cautious Reagan Aide ; Court Nominee Opposed Contra Aid, Gender-Equity Laws, Costly Crime Bill
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › August 19, 2005
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WASHINGTON - As a brash young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. scoffed at state efforts to pass gender-discrimination laws, advised caution in aiding private support for Contra rebels in Nicaragua and called an expansive crime bill backed by Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter "the epitome of the 'throw money at the problem' approach."
In more than 38,000 pages of documents released Thursday, Roberts weighs in on some of the great controversies of the Reagan era and reveals a few personality quirks along the way.See the full content of this document
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Documents Paint Roberts As Cautious Reagan Aide ; Court Nominee Opposed Contra Aid, Gender-Equity Laws, Costly Crime Bill
The documents, housed at the Reagan Presidential Library in California and made available Thursday in Washington, shed little new light on Roberts' broadly conservative views, but they add detail.
In fact, Roberts' rapt attention to det...See the full content of this document
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