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Roberts: Congress Can Bar Discrimination
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, on a glide path toward Senate confirmation, said Thursday that Congress has the authority to pass laws barring discrimination based on race, gender and disability.
On the third — and abbreviated — day of questions, Roberts responded with a repeated "Yes, Senator" to Edward M. Kennedy's questions on whether Congress has the power to act to thwart discrimination.
A handful of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee planned further questions for Roberts, President Bush's choice to succeed the late William H. Rehnquist as the nation's 17th chief justice. Republicans wound up their questioning on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, on a glide path toward Senate confirmation, said Thursday that Congress has the authority to pass laws barring discrimination based on race, gender and disability.
On the third — and abbreviated — day of questions, Roberts responded with a repeated "Yes, Senator" to Edward M. Kennedy's questions on whether Congress has the power to act to thwart discrimination.
A handful of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee planned further questions for Roberts, President Bush's choice to succeed the late William H. Rehnquist as the nation's 17th chief justice. Republicans wound up their questioning on Wednesday.
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