STEALTH NOMINEE JOHN ROBERTS ABOUT TO BOMB

BUSH GAMBIT ON UNKNOWN STEALTH NOMINEE ROBERTS NOW STEALTH BOMB ABOUT TO EXPLODE. And the self congratulation the Bush Administration lathered itself with over the “well qualified” John Roberts will now be viewed with more than qualified reservations. The John Roberts becoming known is not the John Roberts sold.  Big surprise there.   Two years on the Federal bench may not mean as much as Roberts coming off the bench in the Reagan era to make some key plays throwing out opinions.  Expect Republicans to defend Roberts as merely doing his job for the Reagan administration. Expect the White House to claim all needs for keeping more information about Roberts to come out.  Expect Democrats to act possibly like Democrats. Expect Lieberman to move to whatever position he can take credit for.  Another shock and awe campaign is about to go shocking and awful. John Roberts in the House of Wax begins to melt.

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[NY TIMES] On almost every issue he dealt with where there were basically two sides, one more conservative than the other, the documents from the National Archives and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library show that Judge Roberts, now of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, advocated the more conservative course. Sometimes, he took positions even more conservative than those of his prominent superiors. [ROBERTS MEMO PDF]

[WASHINGTON POST] "The question is: Who is John Roberts? What does he really believe?" said Theodore M. Shaw, director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, during an appearance at the National Urban League convention here yesterday. "What we're finding out is troubling. I've moved from a position of neutrality to being deeply disturbed."
Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, speaking at the same forum, echoed that sentiment. He said he found the documents "to be extremely troubling. They seem to reflect the work of a deeply committed ideologue."

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Comments

[watertiger]

And his work with Ken Starr may not be protected by the attorney client privilege.

[PoliShifter]

Great post Heretik...You do great work!

[Pepper]

The more I hear about him, the more I realize I don't want to know the "real" John Roberts.

I have a new nickname for him, Heretik - Diet Scalia.