Judge Roberts get the nod

I'm not sure if the nod is what he is actually going to get. He doesn't have a vagina, that's for damned sure, and a lot of people expected our President to recommend someone that had one, or was a minority, or had some other distinguishing feature.

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."

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."

However, Fox News reports that:

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.