Anyone looking for parallels on John Roberts need only look to 1990. David Skiiner of the Weekly Standard unearthed some great comments that liberal groups used to describe David Souter, George H.W. Bush's SCOTUS nominee:

"Almost Neanderthal" is how Molly Yard, then-president of the National Organization for Women, described Souter, whose "constitutional views are based on the 'original intent' of the Framers 200 years ago, when blacks were slaves and women were property of their husbands." . . .

"David Souter would be the fifth vote" for outlawing abortion, said Eleanor Smeal of the Fund for the Feminist Majority. "We find him a devastating threat." . . .

"What record Souter has compiled on constitutional questions is both sparse and disturbing," said Arthur Kropp, then-president of People for the American Way, whose current president Ralph Neas, then of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, questioned Souter's "commitment to constitutional guarantees of individual rights and liberties. . . . " The NAACP was "troubled" . . . Could the Democrats have been any more off base? Souter, to the dismay of many conservatives has ended up being one of the more liberal justices. Just wait, you will see similar comments coming from left-leaning groups in the next several days.

The Heimlich Maneuver

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