The Brief on Judge Roberts

[Wind Dancer]

A must read for those who feel Roberts would be fine for SCJ.


On the Far Right of a Far Right Party
The Brief on Judge Roberts

By ELAINE CASSEL

I have to admit that I was fooled by the Cleaver family images displayed by the Roberts family that sultry July night. Not a bad guy, I thought. Doesn't look like a Scalia. Doesn't talk like a Scalia. Maybe President Bush won't make good on his nuclear-type promises to put a Thomas or Scalia on the high court. Maybe Roberts will be a guy with a nice demeanor, a bright man and one who is - as judges should be - fair and open-minded.

No such luck. While others were sleeping, I was up reading memoranda and briefs from days when Roberts was a political operative disguised as a lawyer working in the Reagan administration. It did not take long for the nice-guy image to fade. In its place is a judge in the mold of Scalia more than Thomas, one who is mightily impressed with himself and his intellect and one who does not care a flip for everyday Americans.

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Roberts would like to overturn federal laws and regulations that bring a modicum of justice to everyday citizens. Like the Voting Rights Act. Roberts came out strongly against portions of it as a lawyer working in the Reagan White House. He argued that blacks did not have to have "real" voting rights - the government just had to make people think that they had some rights.

Those who claim not to know what Roberts thinks have not done their homework. Roberts is at the far-right of a far-right party, the party that thinks it has the corner on being right. Roberts may be right for the powerful and the wealthy, but he is not right for ordinary Americans, those of us who pay his salary.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel09092005.html

Excellent article!

[JDPriestly]

1. I lived in Germany and Austria

for a number of years. What shocked me the most was that some of the people I met and found to be warm, kind, wonderful had not only supported the NAZI movement in the 1930s and 1940s but, mostly in Austria, still held on to some of the fundamental beliefs and embraced the hatred of Jews that they had followed when the NAZIs were in power. "Nice," normal acting people, people who will feed the hungry and rescue the sick can believe in and work for fascist ideologies. At the same time, some progressives can be obnoxious. So I learned that both fascists and progressive can be "nice," socially polished, polite, etc. There is not always a correlation between these personality traits and moral or social values.

[oldtime dfl_er]

2. KICK for anyone who is being bamboozled by the hearings

Read this! FAR RIGHT. AT THE FAR RIGHT OF A FAR RIGHT PARTY.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/801334

[The Witch]

3. ok, so if kick doesn't equal recommend what is it?

Because there are 0 votes for this to be on the greatest page, so is kick not equal to recommend? i confuzzled.