WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on Judge John Roberts' nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court next month, a published report said.
The hearings are not listed on the committee's Web site. But Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Capitol Hill, said Wednesday the hearings will begin Sept. 6, after Congress returns from its summer recess.
Other reports have said the hearings will start Sept. 7.
President Bush nominated Roberts, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, after Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced she was stepping down.
Democrats have been pressing for more information on Roberts' career.
Recent reports said some material written by Roberts when he was a lawyer in the Reagan administration are missing from the National Archives after White House and Justice Department officials reviewed them. The archives has taken responsibility, saying the documents were returned before they came up missing.
The White House also said no conflict of interest occurred when Roberts was interviewed for the high court job while he was part of a three-judge panel that eventually approved U.S. military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay.
His position on abortion also is expected to be a subject of the hearings.
