Further to
Gonzalez v. Oregon, the assisted suicide case, one of the senators from that state had this to say, after meeting with Roberts:
Roberts told Wyden that he would look closely at the legislative history of federal laws and would be careful not to strip states of powers they traditionally have held -- such as regulating the practice of medicine, Wyden said.
"You don't get the impression from how he answered that he'd let somebody stretch a sweeping statute like the Controlled Substances Act," Wyden said.
Wyden confident Roberts would shield suicide law