Speedy Confirmation Expected for Roberts

[Nightwing]

Republicans and Democrats see no serious obstacle to Roberts' confirmation. Liberal, civil rights, civil libertarian and abortion rights groups have come out against him but not one of the Senate's 100 members has declared opposition.
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WTF is WRONG with Dem leadership!! No way should we roll over and allow this BS nominee to be confirmed.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050912/ap_on_go_su_co/roberts

[texpatriot2004]

1. I am not convinced. n/t

[Nightwing]

2. I hope you are right

But I am seriously concerned. We do not need such a radical far right loon with little experience as Chief Justice of the USSC. Dem leadership in the Senate had better be fierce against Roberts and deny ANY confirmation until ALL of Roberts papers are turned over for review.

[Tesha]

10. It doesn't matter; our elected "Democrats" are convinced.

And as we know, they'd all go to the mat for us, right?

Tesha

[earthside]

16. Not Even Themselves

Ha! That's a good one ... "they'd all go to the mat for us, right?"

They won't even go to the mat for themselves if they think the 'president' might call them 'unpatriotic'.

Sad to say, like Brownie, for the most part, the establishment Democrats are going to grease the skids for this guy.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. We can't let another racist head the Supreme Court

we've had enough of that with Renquist.

[shaniqua6392]

4. They have already taken his measurements

for his Chief Justice black robe and placed the order. This is nothing but show. There is not much the Dem's could do since they will probably be unwilling to fight. I think they may as well just confirm him today. Why bother with the facade?

[mrdmk]

5. There are many people against John Roberts and for good reason

B.S. line in the article

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Senate Democrats have bitterly fought Bush's attempts to move the federal judiciary to the right. They plan even more intense questioning of Roberts now that he is slated to move all the way from a junior judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to the top spot on the Supreme Court.
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There was a good fight in congress over Bush Jr.'s judicial appointees, but the DLC put an end to it and called it good. What really happened, Bush Jr. got his appointments and nothing less.

[Algorem]

6. Mr. 38% gets everything he wants

[buzzsaw_23]

7. High Court Battle Opens Today

High court battle opens today
Bush, Dems both hope to gain from Roberts hearings

Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Monday, September 12, 2005
 
Washington -- When John Roberts takes his seat today in a historic Senate hearing room, it will be to win confirmation as the 17th chief justice of the United States -- to replace his former mentor who died nine days ago -- rather than as a junior associate justice to fill the seat of retiring centrist Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

The Democrats the 50-year-old nominee faces on the Senate Judiciary Committee will be freshly energized, not just to grill him, but to bend the White House to their will on a second Supreme Court vacancy now newly open.

And the Republican president who nominated him has seen his political strength sapped by a violent hurricane that may leave Roberts as his best hope for a second-term legacy.

The odds in Washington are high that Roberts, an appellate court judge, will be confirmed, given his sterling legal credentials, soothing personality and shortage of political bombshells from his past. With Republicans holding a comfortable 55 seats in the 100-member Senate, nothing short of a filibuster that would wreak havoc in the body can stop him.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/09/12/MNG2REMAIG1.DTL

[Danmel]

8. I'm not expecting much

Sadly I just don't think Roberts will be challenged anywhere near as hard as he should be. Part of the reason is the specter (pun intended) of the alternative- Chief Scalia or Chief Thomas, and part of it is the already mentioned by Specter refusal to question him on abortion rights or other issue specific questions. Add the balance of power in the Senate, the fact that the only woman on the judicial ry committee (out of 18) is Feinstein and I think it's a done deal, a foregone conclusion despite the Administration's usual stonewalling and refusal to release info. We're fucked again ( and not in a good way)

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Has the way he managed to adopt 2 Irish children been cleared up?

The last comment I can see on this is in a blog, on the 5th Sept:

Under Irish system of adoption, both private placements and private assessments are illegal. Additionally the 1993 Hague Convention on protection and co-operation in respect of inter-country adoption, forbids any improper financial gain from adoption.

The (British) Sunday Times, this past weekend reported that there are apparently no records of Judge Roberts and his wife adopting these two children through official channels in Ireland and the matter is being looked into.

The circumstances of the adoptions certainly raise questions from the perspective of Irish adoption law and whether Judge Roberts and his wife have broken these laws, whether wittingly or not.

http://www.isthatlegal.org/archives/2005/08/blondeness_and.html

though I can't find the article in the Sunday Times.

[mbperrin]

11. Let's face it - the fix is in; even if they catch him with a live boy or

a dead woman.

I hate that.

[texpatriot2004]

12. Can someone impersonating a President legitimately appoint

anyone to anything?

[gratuitous]

13. Bolton was "expected" to sail through to confirmation, too

Simple enough: Demand that Roberts' full record be turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee, or hold after hold will be placed on his nomination, stopping it from going forward.

Puts the onus for action on the corrupt Bush administration, and breaks the horrible precedent it is setting in not turning over all of a Supreme Court nominee's records.

[Demeter]

14. Maybe Fitzgerald's Grand Jury Has Something On Roberts?

An indictment would put a little stop in his path, don't you think?

[Zynx]

15. Roberts is an even swap with Rehnquist.

I know Rehnquist was no prize either to put it lightly, but we can't win this fight. Wait until the next one because that's the one that could actually change the balance of the court. Look, with the current make up of the Senate and the fact Bush is in the White House, we are not going to get anything approaching a liberal justice regardless of what we do.

[catmandu57]

17. Given the track record on the chimps* selections

They'de better run this asshole under an electron microscope, he's too young and inexperienced, that in itself should be reason enough.

[rocktivity]

18. Since Bush did such a good job of checking Michael Brown's credentials

I think the Dems should refuse to start any hearings untill they get ALL the documents they requested.

:headbang:
rocknation

[rhett o rick]

19. I just don't understand. Demo's should try to slow down the Bushco

mark toward fascism. What are the Demo's waiting for? Another disaster? How many do they need to understand we are in deep 'Rove'.