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Roberts displays more moderate views USATODAY.com - Thu Sep 15, 8:57 AM ET
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts suggested Wednesday that his views on civil rights were more moderate than those he expressed during his days as a Reagan administration lawyer, and he hinted at a concern for gay men and lesbians who might face discrimination. Roberts, 50, also described several principles that seemed to separate his legal views from those of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, the high court's most conservative members. Roberts said he did not subscribe to a limited view of constitutional liberty, and he suggested that constitutional principles should evolve with the times.