The Charlotte Observer (NC) has published some of the Q&A from a town hall meeting Edwards held at Conant Elementary School in Concord, N.H., Monday night. Here's a taste:

Q. If you could talk about the values you would look for in a Supreme Court nomination.

A. Many times federal judges -- not just Supreme Court nominees, federal judges at any level ... are the only thing that stands between what may be the popular will at the moment and a constitutional right or a civil right. ... Those rights can be abridged and taken away. ... It is not the role of the judge to legislate. ... The worry is they sit in front of you and give you the answers they think you want to hear and you end up with a (Justice Antonin) Scalia or a (Justice Clarence) Thomas.