<snip> Roberts faced two towering hurdles. The first was his own record of advancing legal positions that would undermine the basic rights Americans have come to take for granted: personal privacy, civil rights, women's rights, reproductive freedom, environmental safeguards and the right to practice religion free of any government interference.
The second hurdle was the White House's refusal to release crucial documents from Roberts' time as deputy solicitor general in the first Bush administration, despite the fact that such documents have been released to the Senate for nominations in the past. <snip>
Indeed, some Republican senators openly advised Roberts not to answer questions. <snip>
We can only suspect that his advisers knew the American people would not like what they would hear. <snip>
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