Topic: Women's Rights and Gender Equality
Senator: Hatch
Date: SEPTEMBER 14, 2005
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HATCH: Now, in the Grove City case, you won that case, didn't you?
ROBERTS: The administration's position prevailed.
HATCH: That's right. In other words, the position that you had advocated prevailed.
Then we didn't like it up here on Capitol Hill. So we passed the Civil Rights Restoration Act. And we changed it, right?
ROBERTS: Yes.
HATCH: Which, of course, is always the prerogative of Congress when you're dealing with a question of statutory interpretation. And that's part of a regular interchange between the court and the Congress.
Sometimes if the court gets something wrong, Congress can fix it. Even if the court gets it right but Congress thinks the approach ought to be changed, Congress is free to legislate for a different result.
So I find it strange to criticize you because you won a case in the Supreme Court and have not advocated against women's rights in any way, shape or form, ever in your career as far as I can understand. Is that correct?
ROBERTS: That's correct, Senator.
HATCH: And, in fact, you're a strong supporter of women's rights and gender equality.
ROBERTS: Yes, Senator.
HATCH: OK.
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