Get ready for a fight...Bush Picks Roberts...

[jamesrwright3]

Enough said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071601049_pf.html

He believes Roe V Wade should be overturned, at least he did in 1991

Bush is not backing down...

 

[Alecto]

**Mutters a few R rated words**

 

[InnerPhyre]

Seems Bush has more of a spine than I thought he did.

 

[Wildwood]

I admire Bush for keeping his campaign promises.

With only a couple of years on the DC Circuit bench, there won't be as many decisions to question him about as with some other possible appointees.

 

[Kotton]

He believes Roe V Wade should be overturned, at least he did in 1991.

GOOD! We need a fight to set some of the LIBERAL Senators back on their heels.

Kotton

 

[Alecto]

I admire Bush for keeping his campaign promises.

Why? He hasnt kept any of them

 

[Kotton]

**Mutters a few R rated words**

You'll grow up my boy. Another 20 years and it will be wondered WHY you were ever this way.

Kotton

 

[butterfoot]

Enough said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071601049_pf.html

He believes Roe V Wade should be overturned, at least he did in 1991

Bush is not backing down...

No problem. last time I checked the Republicans still have the majority in the senate. Go ahead Dems try and block the nomination. Republicans will use the Nuclear option and Democrats will be crying foul.


-cw

 

[Alecto]

You'll grow up my boy. Another 20 years and it will be wondered WHY you were ever this way.

Kotton

I seriously doubt it, Im a moderate

 

[neverforsaken]

 

[CaDan]

Hmmm . . . .

Does anyone know anything about his positions on anything besides abortion? 'Cause there are a lot of other issues, too.

And I don't put much stock in briefs he wrote while working for Republican administrations.

 

[Ozymandius]

No problem. last time I checked the Republicans still have the majority in the senate. Go ahead Dems try and block the nomination. Republicans will use the Nuclear option and Democrats will be crying foul.


-cw

You know at some point democrats might have a majority in the senate and/or house. Exploding the fillibuster would look mighty stupid then. But so far we don't know jack about this guy.

 

[Thirst_For_Knowledge]

He was against abortion when he was a lawyer and representing someone on an abortion issue, who was opposed. That says nothing about his stance.

 

[KenH]

I applaud this nomination.

Good job, Mr. President.

 

[Heiroglyph]

Well I don't know much about this judgebut I hope the President does!

 

[PACKY]

http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/robertsresume.htm

http://www.sctnomination.com/blog/archives/2005/06/potential_nomin_2.html


July 19, 2005 — Bush appointee John G. Roberts Jr., 50, was confirmed to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2003, and was sworn in by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whom he had previously served as a law clerk.

Despite being called the "best Supreme Court advocate of his generation," there had been speculation that Roberts' lack of time on a federal bench — and thus his relatively small paper trail — might scare Bush away from nominating him to the Supreme Court, but that was proven not to be an issue.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/SupremeCourt/story?id=954398&page=1

 

[CaDan]

He appears to be a genuinely skilled and smart guy. Perhaps not as strong on separation of church and state issues as I would like, but not as bad as it could be.

It will probably take him a few years to figure out that he is no longer an advocate, but a judge.

He's a smart pick.

 

[Sycophant]

According to this other thread and it's source he also is very pro corporate interests and is against governmental protection ot the environment.

Although perhaps that will make him more popular with a large chunk of the population here?

 

[kermit]

From what little I've heard about this guy he looks like a good pick. No more out of the mainstream than Ginsburg or Brenner.

 

[CaDan]

According to this other thread and it's source he also is very pro corporate interests and is against governmental protection ot the environment.

Although perhaps that will make him more popular with a large chunk of the population here?

It's hard to tell what his actual positions are. He worked for Republican administrations and then worked for a major law firm. He represented the positions of his clients.

Remember, Clarence Darrow represented railroads for years before he went into private practice.