When Roberts' record on civil rights is reviewed inside the Judiciary Committee, it's going to sound more jarring post-Katrina than before the hurricane. America was reminded about the big issue out there that has not been openly addressed by the administration _ economic disparity based on race.

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.

John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's rights.

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.