NYT: Senate Judiciary Comm. Sends Roberts 10-pg Questionnaire(re. recount)

[DeepModem Mom]

Panel Sends Judge 10-Page Questionnaire
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: July 28, 2005


WASHINGTON, July 27 - The Senate Judiciary Committee sent a 10-page questionnaire to Judge John G. Roberts on Wednesday that could yield new details about his behind-the-scenes role in the Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore, the Florida recount battle that decided the 2000 presidential election in favor of George W. Bush.

The bipartisan questionnaire, which is similar to previous surveys submitted to candidates for the Supreme Court, asks Judge Roberts to list all memberships in and any "services rendered" to any political party or election committee. It also seeks "any memoranda analyzing issues of law or public policy that you wrote on behalf of or in connection with a presidential transition team."...

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After President Bush announced last week that he had selected Judge Roberts to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a spokesman for Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida said Mr. Roberts had provided the governor quiet legal advice during the recount, though he would not say what sort of advice....

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Mr. Roberts edited legal briefs produced each day by the Bush team of 400 lawyers as the case was moving through the lower courts. And he played a crucial role in editing the final 50-page Supreme Court argument, prepared in just 24 hours. He also prepared moot court questions for Mr. Olson and participated in a dress rehearsal in preparation of Mr. Olson's arguments before the court, Mr. Cruz said.

People involved in preparing the Judiciary Committee questionnaire discussed it on the condition that they and their political parties not be identified. They said that depending on how the questions on political activities and affiliations are interpreted, it was possible that the survey would not yield any new information about the judge's role in the Florida case....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/politics/28confirm.html?

[ShockediSay]

1. Somehow I get the feeling ....

Somehow I get the feeling that this whole Roberts thing is a big distraction for MSM and, more importantly, Sound Bite Media (SBM) to get away from the crooked dealings of BushCo getting us into Iraq on false pretenses; Rove/Segretti type dirty tricks & crooked dealing to discredit those who would call attn to BushCo's misrepresentations (impeachable misrepresentations if not treasonous) as well as DeLay/Segretti type crooked dealing dirty tricks.

Let us not get all too distracted from the raping of the Republic.

[merwin]

2. Media's doing a good job of tracking both so far...

I'm crossing my fingers in hopes that it will stay that way.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Thanks for posting, ShockediSay -- and welcome to DU!