Reply #: New Cache of Roberts Documents Found

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http://us.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/31/roberts.documents.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats said that Tuesday's discovery of some unreleased documents from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts could make things tougher for him at his confirmation hearings next week.

"If these documents reveal significant information about Judge Roberts' views and we are not getting them until the eve of the hearings, there could well be a need for additional time to question the nominee," said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, a member of the Judiciary Committee.

The National Archives announced on Tuesday that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., had discovered a "large volume" of unreviewed and unreleased Roberts documents that were filed under a code instead of under Roberts' name. Additional employees from the Archives have been sent to the Reagan library to review the documents to determine what or how much can be released, officials said.

Roberts' confirmation hearing will begin next Tuesday.

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A little more good news for such a bleak humpday.