Susan Jones relies on the usual CNSNews.com labeling bias in an Aug. 10 article on NARAL Pro-Choice America’s ad on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts — “pro-life demonstrators” vs. “pro-abortion group” and “abortion advocate.”
Jones also engages in a tortured defense of a brief Roberts filed in a case involving abortion protesters:
Moreover, Roberts’ 1991 court brief did not support violent extremists; in that brief, Roberts argued against the use of an 1871 federal law to prosecute pro-life demonstrators. Those demonstrators included a man, Michael Bray, who previously (in 1985) had been convicted of conspiracy in connection with abortion clinic bombings.
So even though the defendants whose position Roberts supported in his brief were violent extremists, he was not actually supporting violent extremists. Got that?