John Roberts SC nominee

[[xeno]Julios]

it seems that the fundamental question that defines your politics in america is whether you agree or disagree with abortion.

fucking circus

[PHILAMONSTER]

npr all but said it would be edith clement. i guess being a woman deems her socially liberal enough to not be nominated.

yes julz, lots of people think they're good christians here and who better to mislead them than a president who answers only to god.

[Kills On Site]

Well he thinks, or so CNN said, that he thinks that the Supreme Court was all wrong and shit in the abortion case. Personally not one I want on the bench

[zeeko]

n/m he sucks..

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/ ... l%20Glance

[Dave]

Just remember, those liberal judges enabled Home Depot to commandeer your house... Liberal, conservative, it doesn't really matter.

[bitWISE]

1. Roberts is 50, and sits on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. He has been a federal judge for just a little more than two years, writing so few opinions that it is difficult for the average person to gauge how conservative he really is. Yet those who know Roberts say he is a reliable far-right conservative who can be counted on to undermine civil liberty landmarks like the right to choose and affirmative action. On one of his cases, Roberts co-authored a brief that argued in favor of clergy-led prayer at public school graduations. The case was Lee v. Weisman, and the government lost.

2. In a brief he co-wrote in 1990 he DID suggest the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 high court decision that legalized a woman’s right to choose. He wrote: "We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled.'' In a second abortion-related case, Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic, Roberts signed a "friend of the court" brief arguing that Operation Rescue was not engaged in a conspiracy to deprive women of their constitutional rights.

3. Roberts was a former clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist and worked in the Reagan Justice Department and as deputy solicitor general during the first Bush administration. Roberts co-authored a brief supporting a law that criminalized flag burning. The government lost, and even conservative justice Antonin Scalia voted against the law. You know you are pretty far right when even Scalia can’t go there.

4. In his ruling last October in Hedgepeth v. WMATA, Roberts upheld the arrest, handcuffing and detention of a 12-year-old girl for eating one french fry inside a D.C. Metrorail station. Roberts ruled that nothing the police did violated the girl's Fourth Amendment or Fifth Amendment rights.The girl’s cholesterol level is doing better, though, I hear.

5. Roberts showed a marked disrespect for the environment in a 2003 case, Rancho Viejo v. Norton. Roberts wanted the full D.C. Circuit to overturn a panel's decision that upheld a Fish and Wildlife Service regulation protecting the arroyo toads under the Endangered Species Act. Roberts said there could be no interstate commerce rationale for protecting the toad, which, he said, "for reasons of its own lives its entire life in California." Apparently, those reasons did not hold up to Roberts’ exacting standards. We suggest that frogs try to move around a little more.

6. Roberts found himself deep within the colon of the Bush administration in a case that pitted the government against veterans of the first Gulf War. American soldiers captured and tortured by the Iraqi government during the first Gulf War sued the Iraqi government in U.S. court and won nearly $1 billion in damages at the district court level, an amount that still did not cover their bills in aggregate. However, Once Saddam was toppled in 2003, the Bush administration wanted to protect the new Iraqi government from liability (cause guess who would have to pay) and intervened to block the award. Roberts, alone among the circuit judges who ruled with the government, said the federal courts did not even have jurisdiction to consider the victims' claim and he denied the Vets the money. An appeal is before the Supreme Court.

7. When Roberts was the deputy solicitor general in 1990, he argued in Lujan v. National Wildlife Federation, that individuals had no standing to challenge certain Interior Department land management decisions because they used nearby land for recreational purposes. Roberts argued that was not a specific enough injury to achieve standing. Apparently using land for recreational purposes does not mean you are privileged to be protected from harm by the government or corporations. This turned out to be a landmark decision narrowing the doctrine of standing and making it easier for corporations to abuse the environment, because we need to make that a little easier, I guess.

8. During the Clinton administration years, Roberts became a highly sought after private lawyer in Supreme Court cases, representing large corporate clients like the National Collegiate Athletic Association in a discrimination case, and carmaker Toyota in winning limits on disabled workers' claims, ensuring that the automaker would not have to pay the entirety of workers’ accident claims. At this point he’s lost the vote of the Toyota Driving French Fry eating, Frog loving Female Vets. It’s an odd group.

9. He spoke out in opposition to the Violence against Women act, Stating "We have gotten to the point these days where we think the only way we can show we're serious about a problem is if we pass a federal law, whether it is the Violence Against Women Act or anything else.'' Here he probably figured he was not the recommendation of the National organization of Women anyway.