White House Said to Block Roberts Papers

[Fire Walk With Me]

By JENNIFER LOVEN and JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writers
7 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The White House intends to deny the Senate Judiciary Committee documents from Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' work in the solicitor general's office from 1989-93, a senior Bush administration official said Monday.

"They will not be released," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been made public.

The administration is working on the release of other documents from Roberts' time working for President Reagan in the 1980s, the official said. But it will claim executive privilege for materials from his time as principal deputy solicitor general — the government's second-ranking courtroom lawyer — for former President George H.W. Bush between 1989 and 1993.



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050726/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_bush

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1. That's it....fillibuster the bastard's nomination...no documents

....no vote. Piss on Bush!

[still_one]

4. oh yeah, watch just how much testicular fortitude our democratic

representative have...

[driver8]

5. They'll just roll over and play dead...as usual...

"Sorry Whitehouse...didn't mean to upset you. We'll crawl back in our holes now..."

[tjdee]

2. Hi, government means all your paper are belong to us, asshat!

Considering how many rights we are purported to have in this country, you'd think we'd be entitled to see professional papers written on our dime. Especially when someone is applying for a job that pays over $100K that WE will have to pay.

[Trillo]

3. No Transparency for this Administration.

But continual moves toward Big Brother transparency for the citizens.

The hypocrisy is stunning.

[AtomicKitten]

6. Nothing Pisses Me Off More ...

than this administration withholding documents. They are saying it's attorney-client privilege. My ass. I am so sick of these slippery bastards.

[Pirate Smile]

7. NYT: Some Documents of Supreme Court Choice Will Be Released

By RICHARD W. STEVENSON, SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JOHN M. BRODER
Published: July 26, 2005
This article is by Richard W. Stevenson, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and John M. Broder.

WASHINGTON, July 25 - The Bush administration plans to release documents from Judge John G. Roberts's tenure in the White House counsel's office in the mid-1980's and his earlier job working for the attorney general, but will not make public papers covering the four years he spent as principal deputy solicitor general starting in 1989, two senior administration officials said Monday.

The decision fulfilled a request for disclosure of the documents made on Monday by Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which will hold the confirmation hearings for Judge Roberts, President Bush's choice to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, said the senator's spokesman, Bill Reynolds.

But it falls short of the disclosure sought by Democrats, who have been demanding access to files from the nominee's work in the solicitor general's office at the Justice Department from 1989 to 1993, under the first President George Bush. Democrats say those files could shed light on the nominee's thinking about issues that could come before the court, and are especially important because Judge Roberts has not produced much of a paper trail when it comes to issues like abortion. Mr. Specter did not seek access to the papers from Judge Roberts's work as deputy solicitor general, Mr. Reynolds said.

The administration officials said the White House would work with the National Archives and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to expedite processing of roughly 50,000 pages of documents from 1982 to 1986, when Judge Roberts was an assistant counsel in the Reagan White House. About 4,000 pages of documents from that period have already been made public, but those have not included papers pertaining to Judge Roberts's work on a broad array of topics including the Iran-contra scandal, school prayer and civil rights issues.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/26/politics/politicsspecial1/26confirm.html

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8. Let's see his Bob Jones memos. eom

[goclark]

9. And we are not to say he is like Hitler?!

He is scum of the earth!

[TahitiNut]

10. Any documents relating to the basis for the Bushoilini choice of ...

... Rogers should be made available to the entire Senate Judiciary Committee, without exception! If it has anything to do with the reasons the regime picked him, it's "fair game" (in the words of Karl the Brain).

[KittyWampus]

11. What A Fucked Up Article Title They Chose. The SCANDAL Is The Papers

they will NOT release.

God the Times is close to worthless.

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12. Headline of the AP article "White House Said to Block Roberts Papers"

No irony here, huh?

What the hell happened to the NYT? So pathetic.