Roberts Wanted to Rein in U.S. Employment Agency, Memo Says

[UpInArms]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aG5NZJnKEmxQ&refer=top_world_news

Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) -- As a young government lawyer, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. proposed reining in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission because its civil rights positions were ``totally inconsistent'' with President Ronald W. Reagan's policies, a newly released memo says.

In a June 16, 1982, memo to his boss, Attorney General William French Smith, Roberts complained that the agency's legal strategy on employment discrimination was at odds with that of the Justice Department's civil rights division.

Roberts said the EEOC had urged the Supreme Court to find that a company's seniority system was discriminatory because it resulted in fewer promotions of minorities even if there was no evidence the company intended that result.

``EEOC presented an argument that would have expanded the effects test in employment cases -- despite the clear philosophical opposition to the effects test'' by the Justice Department ``most clearly articulated in the voting rights area,'' Roberts wrote in the memo released today by the National Archives.

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[Norquist Nemesis]

1. There is only ONE thing I want to know about John Roberts

So far, I haven't seen a single report that says who John Roberts really is. Supposedly, he's 'brilliant'. To me, that means he knows how to argue/win cases for his clients...be they the President or a paying client from his law firm. In a nutshell, he know how to please the boss.

So all I want to know is...Judge Roberts, if you are confirmed to be a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, WHO WILL BE YOUR BOSS???

Getting that one question asked AND answered will tell me everything I need to know.

[Iowa]

2. Roberts...

He stands for the opposite of everything that is good, decent, courageous, and honorable. This is a man with no conscience and no selfless core values. It is readily apparent in his writings, and it is displayed in his vacant, Dan Quayle-ish face. All one needs to do to understand how the Nazis could have committed such evil is to look into the face of Roberts - it's not so much the presence of something in his character, rather, it is the utter absence of anything. He's a dead man walking around in this world - and an excellent representation of everything Bush and his ilk stand for.

I don't need to have any questions answered about Roberts. His writings and his face tell me everything I need to know.