Bullshit letter from Sen. Dullard re: John Roberts

[Hawkeye-X]

(got it via E-mail)







August 30, 2005

Hawkeye-X
xxx xxx St
Denver, CO 80246

Dear HawkeyeX:

Thank you for writing regarding John G. Roberts, Jr., President Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. I appreciate that you have taken the time to share your thoughts on this important issue.

Judge Roberts is an exceptionally well qualified nominee. After having earned bipartisan support in the confirmation process just two years ago, Judge Roberts has been serving on one of the most influential courts in the nation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judge Roberts graduated Summa Cum Laude from Harvard University in only three years. After graduating from Harvard Law School with high honors and serving as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Judge Roberts clerked for Judge Henry Friendly on the Second Circuit and later for Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. After his clerkships, Judge Roberts served in the Department of Justice and later as Associate Counsel to President Ronald Reagan before going into private practice. After three years in private practice, Judge Roberts returned to the Department of Justice as Principal Deputy Solicitor General, a position in which he briefed and argued a remarkable 39 cases before the Supreme Court. Only a handful of the 180,000 members of the Supreme Court bar come close to that record of accomplishment.
In addition, he has the keen intellect, impartiality and temperament, sound legal judgment, and highest integrity required of a Supreme Court justice. He rules based on the application of existing laws and specific facts of the cases before him, rather than making new laws or creating new policies based on personal opinion. It's not surprising that The National Journal has said that "John Roberts seems a good bet to be the kind of judge we should all want to have - all of us, that is, who are looking less for congenial ideologues than for professionals committed to the impartial application of the law."
Throughout the process, the White House has demonstrated an unprecedented level of consultation with Senators from both parties, consulting with more than 70 Senators, including every member of the Judiciary Committee and more than two-out-of three Democrats. Moreover, the White House has provided over 14,000 pages of documents from Judge Roberts' distinguished service in the Executive Branch on top of the hundreds of pages he has written as a federal judge. Requests for production of further documents are tantamount to a "fishing expedition" in contravention of Senate tradition and settled privilege law.
The American people have every right to expect the Senate to provide a fair hearing, a floor debate in which all views are heard, and a timely vote so that the Supreme Court can convene for its fall term on October 3rd with all justices in place.

Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this important and historic issue. For more information regarding issues important to Colorado and the nation, please feel free to visit my website at http://allard.senate.gov

Sincerely,
A
Wayne Allard
United States Senator

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(As usual, he ignored the issues)