This guy is a white male, Harvard grad, and sits on the D.C. circuit. What a hoot this is gonna be.
We learn this about him from CNN:
During the dispute over the 2000 presidential election, Roberts was part of a team of Republican lawyers and former Supreme Court law clerks who assisted the Bush-Cheney campaign.I'm sure that will come back to bite him in the butt.
CNN also says:
A spokesman for Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, the Senate Democratic leader, said Roberts has "suitable legal credentials."However, Fox News reports that:
But the spokesman, Jim Manley, added, "Now he needs to demonstrate to the Senate that he has a commitment to core American values of freedom, equality and fairness."
But Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who last week laid out a list of questions that a Supreme Court nominee should answer, said that Roberts has an obligation to answer those questions.
"The burden is on a nominee to the Supreme Court to prove that he is worthy, not on the Senate to prove that he is unworthy. I voted against Judge Roberts for the D.C. Court of Appeals because he didn't answer questions fully and openly when he appeared before the committee," Schumer said.
I didn't realize it was incumbent on the Judge to demonstrate anything. I thought that the burden was on the Senate to "advise and consent". Personally, I think Senator Schumer is full of shit.
I smell a fight coming, and the Gang of 14 did us no service last month.
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My problem with the guy is his age. Isn't he only 50? Whether he leans right or left he'll be leaning for maybe the next 30 or 40 years.
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