judicial philosophy and his commitment to civil rights, workers' rights, women's rights.

I do not believe he has an agenda to reverse our nation's historic commitment to civil rights, and I take him at his word when he says that he will take each case on its facts and apply the law regardless of his personal views.

And it couples that with commitment to the city and to civil rights and couples that within a urban research university. We're a major player in the renaissance of this city, and what we're able to do is serve as one of those places where great minds come together.

I will take a backseat to no one in a commitment to civil rights in America.

He put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge. ... Just maybe, we need a White House conference on civil rights.

[(AP) CBC Wants Roberts Probed on Civil Rights: A Roberts who would limit the Supreme Court's reach would please the 10 Republicans on the committee, who used their opening statements Monday to complain about the Supreme Court's reach into areas they felt were more properly left to local, state and national legislators.] Perhaps the Supreme Court's most notorious exercise of raw political power came in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which invented a constitutional right to abortion, ... The issue had been handled by the people through their elected representatives prior to that time.