Roberts’ fate is in former Wichitan’s hands

Don’t forget that Sen. Sam Brownback won’t be the only Kansan quizzing U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa. — now 75 and newly finished with chemotherapy for Hodgkin’s disease — was born in Wichita in 1930, attending College Hill Elementary School and the former Roosevelt Intermediate School until the family moved to Russell in 1942. His family did business with the Glickmans in Wichita and the Doles in Russell. Specter, who was an investigator on the Warren Commission and Philadelphia district attorney before he won his Senate seat in 1980, had to fight conservatives to win the chairmanship. But “for all the consternation, he’s done what he said he will do” concerning nominees, Brownback recently told the Chicago Tribune.
Posted by Rhonda Holman