Still deliberating the Roberts nomination

Re “Confirm Roberts,” editorial,

Sept. 20

John G. Roberts Jr. should not be confirmed as chief justice of the United States. He didn’t just hide the ball about his views. He misrepresented positions he has taken about how to measure sex discrimination. Although Roberts had a photographic memory of every case the Supreme Court ever decided, he couldn’t seem to remember that President Bush interviewed him for the high court on the same day Roberts voted to give Bush expanded executive power in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld. This was a clear conflict of interest.

A brilliant intellect is not enough to qualify one to be chief justice. As civil rights giant John Lewis testified at the Senate hearings, “I fear that if Judge Roberts is confirmed to be chief justice of the United States, the Supreme Court would no longer hear the people’s cries for justice.”

MARJORIE COHN

Executive Vice President

National Lawyers Guild

San Diego

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Re your editorial: Congratulations on demonstrating rare good sense.

GEORGE W. CARLYLE

Newport Beach