Charter Member of Reagan Vanguard (Roberts backed limits on bias)

[Rose Siding]

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Roberts's record is being closely scrutinized and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee say they will rigorously question the Supreme Court nominee on his views of civil rights. A review of Roberts's papers from his time at the Justice Department and interviews with his contemporaries show he was deeply involved with the Reagan administration's efforts to recast the way government and the courts approached civil rights.

He wrote vigorous defenses, for example, of the administration's version of a voting rights bill, opposed by Congress, which would have narrowed the reach of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He challenged the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights's arguments in favor of busing and affirmation action. He described a Supreme Court decision broadening the rights of individuals to sue states for civil rights violations as causing "damage" to administration policies, and he urged that legislation be drafted to reverse it. And he wrote a memo arguing that it was constitutionally acceptable for Congress to strip the Supreme Court of its ability to hear broad classes of civil rights cases.

For young conservatives such as Roberts, many of whom had spent the years of the Carter presidency in elite schools or cooling their political heels, the first two years of Reagan's presidency were a heady period. Civil rights was an issue of enormous importance to the Republican Party's fortunes and to businesses and local or state governments frustrated by what they regarded as decades of judicial intrusion into their activities.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR2005073100696.html

[fasttense]

1. Obviously Roberts supports poll taxes.

If you don't have the money to pay for your vote, you shouldn't vote. :sarcasm:

[dajoki]

2. latest on roberts; WP 10:58 pm 7/31/05 he sought to reverse civil rights..

and title IX laws when he was in raygun admin.:wtf: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8770914

[Fridays Child]

3. "And he wrote a memo arguing that it was constitutionally...

...acceptable for Congress to strip the Supreme Court of its ability to hear broad classes of civil rights cases."

This man has no right to sit on the bench whose constitutional powers he advocated gutting.

[earthboundmisfit]

5. Sorta like Bolton & the UN, aint it?

For sure like so many * appointees...

[Fridays Child]

6. Sorta like the whole "war is peace" Orwellian world according to B*sh.

And another chill runs down the spine.

[elperromagico]

15. Haven't you heard? Roberts is going to "reform" SCOTUS

and, by association, the whole judicial branch.

You see, the courts have become too activist... Roberts will get in there and crack some heads. :sarcasm:

[Erika]

19. Yep n/t

[GetTheRightVote]

4. So this is the memo I have been hearing about today, humm.

:kick:

[still_one]

7. I hope this gets more coverage

[dajoki]

8. does anyone think...

that our senators will try to put up a fight? or cave as usual:shrug:

[qanda]

9. As a black person, it is very hard to read this stuff

It really makes me want to throw up. I think I'll go to bed and try to finish the article in the morning. Good Night all.

[Tace]

11. G'Nite -- Just Dry Heaves Here

Not much left after 4 1/2 years. : )

[Doremus]

12. I'm not a black person and it makes me ill

Passages such as the one below have that effect on human beings, as opposed to heartless bastards who will write anything so long as it'll put some cash in their pocket.

"He wrote vigorous defenses, for example, of the administration's version of a voting rights bill, opposed by Congress, which would have narrowed the reach of the 1965 Voting Rights Act."

WTF does that mean? "Narrow the reach"? Only let minorities vote when there's a full moon? On the fourth Sunday in February? If they stand on their heads, pledge allegiance to their repig superiors and say pretty please?

Fuck them and their sleazy, hateful, megalomaniacal, greedy toadies who never met a dollar they wouldn't sell their souls for.


:mad: :puke: :eyes: :grr: :nuke:

[tmooses]

13. I think it means your vote will only count if you're Repub-remember he

was instrumental in the 2000 election steal.

[dajoki]

14. he was an advisor...

and he donated money. all i can say is we better put up a fight, i'm sick of the way our dem leaders always cave to the right wing whackos.

[goclark]

16. It makes me want to cover my head-how much longer

will this crime family last?

[dajoki]

17. they're all a bunch of...

blood sucking vampires, i think we need a bunch of steaks to the heart.

[Fly by night]

23. You can throw steaks at my heart, and pound stakes into theirs.

[wli]

20. as a white person, it's very hard to read this stuff

This fascist freak is a goddamn Klansman in judges' robes.

[Stevious]

24. What sucks is...

he's still the nominee this morning.

:puke:

[dajoki]

27. yes, and in two months...

he will be on SCOTUS. that's the faith i have in our senators. sad but true.

[geek tragedy]

10. He's a photogenic version of Robert Bork.

Never met a black person whose civil rights he felt were worth protecting.

[dajoki]

18. good night DUers

:kick: for daytimers

[laylah]

21. A disgusted kick!

[gademocrat7]

22. The Dems can not give Roberts a chance to be on the Supreme Court

shrub has refused to release all documents on his despicable nominee. Democrats need to stand firm and not let this happen.

[renaissanceguy]

25. BIG KICK --- If the dems let this guy slide through,

blacks, gays, and women should go Green.

THEN what will the DLCers do? Keep appealing to your average Joe White-Heterosexual-Wealty-Republican?


http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.21518002

[dajoki]

26. kick

for daytime crew