Marie Cocco
August 23, 2005John Roberts' self-portrait has been revealed, and it turns out the Supreme Court nominee bears a keen resemblance to a most familiar American character. He is Archie Bunker with a pedigree.
The buttoned-down federal judge does not share Archie's weary, rumpled look. He does not sit in the overstuffed chair from which the loading dock foreman of television's landmark "All in the Family" show launched diatribes against the social changes he felt threatened his neighborhood, his job and his standing as king of his castle.
The seat of Roberts' revolt against social progress of the 1960s and 1970s wasn't plopped in the middle of a fraying house in a blue-collar neighborhood. It was carefully positioned in the corridors of power.
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But the only tangible evidence of an evolution in Roberts' thinking may lie in documents he generated from 1989 to 1993, when he was a high-ranking Justice Department official for President George H.W. Bush. The current President Bush refuses to release them. Without a look at them, America won't be able to see whether John Roberts matured and mellowed - the way Archie Bunker did.He would use legal acumen to try to reverse what Archie could only rant against.
Be sure to read the entire article. It has good references to Roberts' racist and sexist Reagan era memos.
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-opcoc234394382aug23,0,6870862.column?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines
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