In her 1993 U.S. Supreme Court nomination hearing, Ruth Bader Ginsburg vowed she would make “no hints, no forecasts, no previews” on issues that might face the Court. But she did respond to some questions about past high court rulings, agreeing, for example, with the decision in Moore v. East Cleveland that a housing ordinance’s definition of “family,” which excluded a grandmother living with her son and two grandsons, violated the grandmother’s due process rights.
In his 2005 hearing, John Roberts Jr. said he had “no quarrel” with Moore. But in answers to questions submitted after the hearing, he explained “no quarrel” did not mean he was agreeing with that decision or four others with which he said he had “no quarrel,” only that he would treat them as precedents.
