Supreme Court Justice Nominee John D. Roberts

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It's official.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:02 (twenty years ago)

fuck this guy

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050719/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_bush

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

also, had they gone for the obvious choice, the newspapers & talk shows wouldn't have had to fill up as much time explaining who the nominee is, and thus not take away as much time from covering the Rove thing, which of course is all what is about now, innit?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

not really

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

"obvious choice"

― don weiner (don weiner), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

The reviews are pretty good so far. That he was confirmed once without problems suggests that it might not be so difficult this time.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.muchmusic.com/tv/specials/muchturns20/familiarfaces/images/content/img_jdroberts.gif

― Bryan (Bryan), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

To be played by Liev Shreiber in the upcoming from from Fox Searchlight

― Jimmy Mod Is Sick of Being The Best At Everything (ModJ), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I think another reason this guy is the pick is that he is only 50 years old, so he might be around the court for 40 years.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

Possibly even longer.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Roberts is likely to be confirmed. I've heard quite a bit of Monday (ie wednesday) morning commentary about how he's anti-choice and anti-gay, but is well liked in Washington and has a pretty clean history. It'll be hard for liberals/dems to put up much of a fight against him without looking like they're singling out the abortion and gay issues.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

not really

hey wait a minute, then why was there the headfake towards the female judge yesterday?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm sure there's much cackling at the W.H. how they 'got' the godless media with Clement.

Barring a live boy/dead girl discovery, looks like a slamdunk. My first thought was Roberts could be there for the rest of my life.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 12:33 (twenty years ago)

It's a good thing to be able to argue both sides, right?

― youn, Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Yes and no.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

hey wait a minute, then why was there the headfake towards the female judge yesterday?

Interesting story on NPR this morning about how the White House deliberately leaked rumors that it might be Clement in order to have the public belive Bush truly was close to picking a female nominee.

I think it went to the point where someone from the White House told a group of reporters to expect an announcement "featuring" Bush and Clement, then wouldn't confirm this announcement to anyone else so that it could not be published...

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

here's a link to that NPR story.

― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 21 July 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050725/capt.dcmc10507251931.scotus_roberts_dcmc105.jpg?x=380&y=285&sig=xEQ493L2r.EbvkZEOPlf3A--

Apparently, I haven't been watching C-SPAN enough lately, but why is John Roberts meeting with a Keebler elf?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

It'll be hard for liberals/dems to put up much of a fight against him without looking like they're singling out the abortion and gay issues.

The problem with doing this is....?

(although I agree that the Dems are going to Eeyore it yet again.)

― donut ferry (donut), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Every party's gotta look tough for its base. So Dems will thunder that Roberts "must get a full vetting" and must be asked "the tough questions" but we know and they know that he'll get confirmed. Republicans pulled the same crap when it was Ginsberg and Breyer's turn.

There's a terrific debate in Slate, the essence of which is that Roberts is as conservative as O'Connor was in 1980. Considering the driection in which O'Connor drifted towards the end of her term that should give you lefties something to pray for.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 25 July 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

If there's any smoking gun on Roberts it will be well-hidden. The politics of confirmation these days dictates a young judge with a clean nose and a minimal paper trail. The fact that he's a member of the Federalist Society is enough to set off alarm bells for me.

― Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

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

White House won't give up shit on Roberts' work with Dubya's father and Reagan.

also,

He did not list the Federalist Society in a questionnaire he submitted to the Senate when he was nominated for his Court of Appeals seat in 2001.

But Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., said she did not ask Roberts about it. "It's not a dispositive question, in my view," she said.

"It's not like being a member of the Communist Party," said Sen. John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record), R-Texas, who also met with Roberts.

heh. oh yeah?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

It'll be hard for liberals/dems to put up much of a fight against him without looking like they're singling out the abortion and gay issues.

The problem with doing this is....?

That it's the fucking Supreme Court, not just a vehicle for a couple of platform issues.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

That it's the fucking Supreme Court, not just a vehicle for a couple of platform issues.

It became one Election 2004.

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

Not that this counters what you said. But hasn't the abortion issue alone been the primary reason people have been concerned about the Supreme Court turnover issue since Bush got elected in 2000?

― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but I think there's a lot more to worry about.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:26 (twenty years ago)

true, but for many folks, Supreme Court = Roe v Wade, first & foremost

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Who Used All the Pomade? Amazing Analysis of Michael Jackson by a Giant Legal Mind

More fun papers get released.

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Wow, ugly smear ad at Justice Ginsberg run by Roberts supporters.....

― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

Fits in real good between updates of Katrina damage. Shows some real heart, I tell ya.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 1 September 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

starts monday, don' it?

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

And now the upgraded CHIEF nominee's hearings are to start Monday:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/06/scotus.senators.ap/index.html

Unless an Anita Hill is found to prolong the fun, I might have to settle for attending Senate chamber debate on the 26th instead of committee hearings.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

i hope they opened the hearings today with the Muppet Show theme

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 September 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

"Go ahead and continue not to answer," said Biden. Later, he interrupted Roberts and when criticized, insisted, "His answers are misleading, with all due respect."

"Wait a minute! Wait a minute! They may be misleading but they are his answers," said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the Judiciary Committee chairman.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

Next time some troll starts disparaging all y'alls, I'm gonna throw some Arlen Specter back into yo faces.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

funny how polite arlen has gotten all of a sudden -- he wasn't this nice to bork or anita hill.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

It's probably the combination of age, cancer, and the chairmanship that's mellowed him some.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

He is in pretty poor health right now.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

Wonkette's Tips to Make John Roberts's Confirmation More Interesting
• Figure out which senators aren't wearing make-up.
• Go through box of crayons trying to approximate the exact shade of Roberts' dreamy blue eyes.
• Turn off sound, do voice over giving senators funny voices or accents.
• Turn off sound, start "Dark Side of the Moon." Freaky, huh?
• Miniputt!
• Put ten glasses of water on your coffee table, one containing poison: close your eyes and re-arrange them. Every time Specter says, "let him finish," drink one.
• Translate the hearings for your cat ("And then the senator asked 'meow meow meeeow meow meoooow.'").
• Count your yawns per hour; now, can you double that the next hour?
• Assfuck -- while you still can.
• Prank call the committee members' offices, asking "Is your democracy running?"
• Watch them with a gerbil in your trousers.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

No surprise that Biden's hogging the spotlight. What was a surprise was how insistently Specter grilled Roberts re Roe v Wade this morning.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

REUTERS really cracks me up sometimes.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

y'know, I'm kinda unconvinced by the left's arguments about Roberts' evildom. Given who Bush COULD have nominated for the Chief Justice position (ie, Scalia or Thomas), it seems like this is a bit of a relief. and not every justice nominated by a conservative president follows that president's loopy ideology - in a way, I almost find Roberts' measured "I don't make the law, I follow it" etc. schtick reassuring. He doesn't seem like an idealogue. Am I missing something?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Yes, people said the same about Thomas ("He might not be so bad. People surprise you on the court, etc. . .) Roberts is a baby Reinhquist at best I would say and a more charismatic Scalia at worst. This isn't Souter coming out of left field. One look at Roberts' friends should be all you need to convince you of that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

and his friends are....?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

(and btw I def. did NOT say the same thing about Thomas, who looked like a total shit from day one. but then I have an instant and deep distrust of black Republicans, just as I do with gay Republicans).

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40512

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Roberts looks like Gig Young in Twilight Zone

http://www.rodserling.com/images/wdgigyoung.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

OK, I heard about 5 mins yesterday on NPR. Who was the wingnut dirtbag who was going on about the 'nice lady' on the Court (obv Ginsburg) who believes in the constitutional right to prostitution? I'm figuring Brownback or Coburn. (Coburn nailed on Daily Show last night)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

crushworthy (the shame)

― youn, Monday, 19 September 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

That was Lindsey Graham, who also could not resist delivering an interminable, tendentious speech which failed to include any questions for Roberts ("I think it STINKS that an American can burn a flag!").

I'm with Shakey: Roberts may yet morph into a Thomas-esque demagorgon, but considering who Bush could have nominated AND how intelligent and modest he seems (what a relief to hear a man speak in an English clear of jargon; he made those senators look like gibbering monkeys), we're getting off fairly well.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 19 September 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

On the differences between Rehnquist and Roberts, Roberts never intimidated black voters away from polling stations, to my knowledge.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 September 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

“With the confirmation of John Roberts, the Supreme Court will embark upon a new era in its history, the Roberts era,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist

OK can someone explain to me this trend of tautologies and stating the obvious in Washington?

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 29 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Trend or natural state of being?

I'm more interested in the rumors swirling around the new O'Connor replacement.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

"With the presidency of George W. Bush, America will embark upon a new era in its history: the "oh god please no, don't, oh fuck" era."

― gear (gear), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Jeffrey Toobin on John Roberts in his New Yorker profile.

― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 May 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

ha i was just reading this. here's the link since you forgot! http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/25/090525fa_fact_toobin

― fantazy land (harbl), Monday, 18 May 2009 21:00 (sixteen years ago)

lol now i see the link, sorry i'm blind and there is glare UGH

― fantazy land (harbl), Monday, 18 May 2009 21:01 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

How to write briefs like John Roberts (or: how to write well, period).

― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 March 2010 20:17 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Fortune Magazine interview.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 January 2011 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

a fitting publication

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Thursday, 20 January 2011 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

that is not an interview

― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 January 2011 22:06 (fifteen years ago)

huh I had no idea Starr had such a history of being a partisan hack. I mean, it was obvious that the Clinton takedown was politically motivated, but I really was just unaware of how deep Starr's roots ran.

― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 January 2011 22:25 (fifteen years ago)

I take his word for it that the impeachment wasn't "partisan" insofar as he wasn't driven by hatred of Clinton (seek last year's excellent Clinton vs. Starr by Ken Gormley for the definitive story); but his lawyers, and the people who kept feeding him information, were. It's fair to just say he was a hack.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 January 2011 22:27 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6pbsuK8dX1qzfjaho1_1280.jpg

(http://bremser.tumblr.com/post/78480956792/harry-naltchayan-chief-justice-of-the-united)

― mustread guy (schlump), Monday, 10 March 2014 13:21 (eleven years ago)

http://www.edweek.org/media/2005/09/02/2roberts.jpg

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 March 2014 13:30 (eleven years ago)

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