His views are very much out of sync with civil rights, women's rights, privacy. Certainly reviewing so many of those memos and briefs and papers he authored makes one wonder whether he understands how the law affects ordinary people.

I think he could well vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

I think he could well vote to overturn Roe v. Wade,

The President has laid down the gauntlet and the battle is now wide open.

Presidential standing is always a factor with any nomination that is so highly visible and so symbolic of a president's power, and I think it will be here.

If transformed into the law of the land, Judge Roberts' legal views could produce a government with less power to protect ordinary people and give ordinary people less power to protect themselves from abuse by government and other powerful interests.