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| | The Next Hurrah: Privacy vs. Penumbra |
 | | In a Dec. 11, 1981, memo to his boss, Attorney General William French Smith, Roberts referred to a comment by former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold that derided the ``so-called `right to privacy''' that formed the basis of the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. |
 | | Griswold, also a former dean of Harvard Law School, was ``arguing as we have that such an amorphous right is not to be found in the Constitution,'' Roberts wrote in the memo, among papers released by the National Archives and Records Administration in advance of his Senate confirmation hearings set to begin Sept. 6. |
 | | Perhaps it would have been better if Griswold had been grounded in the 9th Amendment in the first place, instead of leaving the impression that the right of privacy is somehow shadowy, when in fact it is basic to liberty. |
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