Education Groups Wait to Opine on Roberts Nomination

Reams of Supreme Court nominee’s writings could help shape their views.

With Senate hearings on U.S. Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. scheduled to begin Sept. 6, several education groups said last week that they were content to wait on opining about whether the federal appellate judge should become the high court’s next associate justice.

Meanwhile, they’ve got plenty of summer reading in the thousands of documents from Judge Roberts’ legal career that the Bush administration has been releasing in recent weeks, under some pressure from Senate Democrats.

“We’re going to watch the process and are letting our coalition partners take the lead,” said Denise Cardinal, a spokeswoman for the National...