Midway between his nomination and his confirmation hearing, a big issue is whether more surprises await officials fighting over access to documents in his career, the AP is set to report Wednesday evening....
Neither side of the political aisle in the Senate is ready to criticize Roberts directly...
But, says AP, "a trickle of omissions from Roberts' public resume have some partisans smelling blood and demanding more documents. Roberts, a U.S. appeals judge, has acknowledged that he should have told senators before he was confirmed for that job that he worked as lobbyist for the cosmetics industry in 2001."
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He said in a Senate questionnaire that he had "no recollection" of being a member of the Federalist Society. But he was on one of the group's panels in 1993, was listed in a 1997 brochure as a member of the steering committee of the society's Washington chapter, and gave a luncheon speech to the legal group in 2003.
Democrats are citing the developments as reasons they should have access to internal memos from Roberts' tenure as a deputy solicitor general, when he represented the White House at the Supreme Court during the administration of President George H.W. Bush. Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., on Wednesday backed the White House's decision to keep those documents closed.
Another volume of documents is expected to be released by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the National Archives on Thursday.
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Originally published on Wednesday August 10, 2005.
