Roberts' words on privacy raise chills

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<snip> The court has continued to expand privacy rights and rights of personal autonomy under presidents of both parties. <snip>

"All of us ... may heartily endorse a 'right of privacy,' " Roberts wrote at another point. "This does not, however, mean the courts should discern such an abstraction in the Constitution."

Such words bring some summer chills. The Alliance for Justice, a 71-member coalition of civil rights, environmental and women's groups, has compiled a 103-page report on Roberts.

"I'm very concerned about memos he wrote on the right of privacy," UW law professor Stewart Jay told CityClub. "He does not believe in the right of privacy in the U.S. Constitution and that it extends to abortion and to contraception." <snip>

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