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DESCRIPTION:WHO: Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights  (BACORR)  WHAT: Picket 
 Sen. Diane Feinstein's Bay Area Offices  John G. Roberts is a 
 threat--period.  Every few days new revelations surface about just how  
 right-wing he is--on every issue imaginable.  From  abortion rights to 
 affirmative action, he's been  against it all.  Yet, in a speech Sen. 
 Feinstein gave  in Los Angeles on 8/24, she maintained she and other  
 Democrats did not know exactly where Roberts stood on  the issues and that 
 they would focus on asking probing  questions at the hearings (SF 
 Chronicle, 8/25).  What  more do they need to know?  It's time for 
 Feinstein to take a stand!  Join us  Tuesday 9/6 @ 5pm!  Here's a brief 
 list of his past record on a variety of  issues:  WOMEN'S RIGHTS  **While 
 serving as Deputy Solicitor General, he asked  the Supreme Court to 
 overturn Roe v. Wade, saying  “[w]e continue to believe that Roe was 
 wrongly decided  and should be  overruled....  [T]he Court’s conclusion  
 in Roe that there is a fundamental right to  an  abortion... finds no 
 support in the text, structure,  or history of the  Constitution.”  **He 
 has urged the Court to limit the legal remedies  women could seek when 
 their rights under Title IX were  violated.   **Also, while working as 
 Deputy Solicitor General, he  filed a friend of the court brief on behalf 
 of  Operation Rescue and others, who routinely blocked  access to abortion 
 clinics, arguing it was not direct  discrimination against women!    CIVIL 
 RIGHTS  **Roberts wrote affirmative action programs were bound  to fail 
 because they required “recruiting of  inadequately prepared 
 candidates”.  **He ruled in October 2004 that the civil rights of a  
 12-year-old African American girl were not violated  when she was 
 handcuffed and arrested for eating a  single French Fry on the Washington, 
 D.C. metro  subway.  **In a recently-decided case brought by a Guantanamo  
 Bay prisoner, Judge Roberts joined a ruling holding  that the government 
 could try terrorism suspects  without granting them basic due process 
 protections.    IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS  **Roberts criticized the Supreme Court 
 for overturning  a Texas law designed to keep undocumented immigrant  
 children from getting a public education.  **As a legal aide in the Reagan 
 administration in  1983, he declared that he would support creating a  
 national ID card in order to combat "the real threat  to our social fabric 
 posed by uncontrolled  immigration"...    GAY RIGHTS  **The Supreme Court's 
 Lawrence v. Texas ruling was in  favor of legal and privacy protections for 
 gays and  lesbians, overruling the state legislature. In  recently released 
 memos, Roberts has referenced this  ruling while raising questions about 
 "intrusive"  courts.    RELIGIOUS FREEDOM  **As Deputy Solicitor General, 
 he urged the Court to  uphold school sponsored prayer at graduation  
 ceremonies and eliminate a key Supreme Court  protection of government 
 neutrality toward religion.  **Roberts praised Chief Justice Rehnquist's 
 dissent in  a Supreme Court decision that overturned an Alabama  law 
 authorizing public school sanctioned moments of  silence for prayer or 
 meditation, calling the ruling  "indefensible."   __________________  Much 
 information provided by:  http://www.savethecourt.org  
 http://news.ncmonline.com/news  http://www.naral.org  
 http://www.socialistworker.org\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/01/74523.php
SUMMARY:Protest John G. Roberts' Confirmation Hearings!
LOCATION:In SF--gather 5pm at Post & Market (Montgomery BART station)  In 
 Oakland--gather 5pm at 14th St. & Broadway (City Center/12th St. BART 
 station)  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/09/01/74523.php
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