Washingon Post: "Roberts Resisted Women's Rights"

What is initially noteworthy about this Washington Post article is its title.

Roberts Resisted Women's Rights

Not, "Democrats say Roberts resisted women's rights," or "Critics: Roberts resisted women's rights," or "Record suggests that Roberts opposes women's rights," or any other equivocal rhetorical exercise.

The paper simply states as fact something demonstrated in John Roberts' record:

In internal memos, Roberts urged President Ronald Reagan to refrain from embracing any form of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment pending in Congress; he concluded that some state initiatives to curb workplace discrimination against women relied on legal tools that were "highly objectionable"; and he said that a controversial legal theory then in vogue -- of directing employers to pay women the same as men for jobs of "comparable worth" -- was "staggeringly pernicious" and "anti-capitalist."

Roberts's thoughts on what he called "perceived problems" of gender bias are contained in a vast batch of documents, released yesterday, that provide the clearest, most detailed mosaic so far of his political views on dozens of social and legal issues.

This page has often decried the phony balance exercise in which so many news outlets feel the need to engage. Kudos to the Post for rejecting it in this case.