Roberts Says Judges Play a Limited Role (he has "no agenda...no platform")

[truthpusher]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050912/ap_on_go_su_co/roberts_2

Roberts Says Judges Play a Limited Role
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By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
8 minutes ago
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Supreme Court nominee John Roberts said Monday that justices are servants of the law, playing a limited government role, as the Senate opened confirmation hearings on President Bush's choice to be the nation's 17th chief justice.

"I come before the committee with no agenda. I have no platform," the 50-year-old Roberts told the panel.

The nominee to be chief justice said a "certain humility should characterize the judicial role."

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050912/ap_on_go_su_co/roberts_2

[SodoffBush]

1. Choosing presidents is a very big role for judges, isn't it?

[saigon68]

14. "scary roberts" will relish this role

[bballny]

2. such small roles

as the Dred Scoot decision, Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. board of education. Yes they play a small role-sarcasmm

[RepublicanElephant]

5. don't forget their favorite...

...bush v gore

[napi21]

3. It's way too soon to tell, but Roberts looked and sounded

good today. I know a lot of you are going to flame me for saying this, but I plan on listening to all the hearings and decide what I think of Roberts for myself. I don't want to hate him, or be afraid of him, just because Shrub nominated him!

[Why Syzygy]

4. I don't want to hate or fear either.

I very much would like to get feedback from authentic Democratic representatives. I don't have time to listen to the whole mess.
That's why they make the big bucks. Get the job done. Protect the Constitution, et. al.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. The guy had his fingers in Iran/Contra all the way to Chimp v Gore.

AND Shrub nominated him. Nothing good can come from his nomination unless it's a backlash.

[saigon68]

24. He is another Criminal

[hunter]

18. Duh, "Roberts looked and sounded good today..."

Why would Roberts reveal his true self before he is confirmed?

This guy has spent his entire career as a stategist and legal hit man for the organized crime gang that now runs this nation.

He ain't no angel. After he is confirmed you will see the horns and the tail, and smell the brimstone.

[FlemingsGhost]

6. What an absolutely absurd statement. (n/t)

Flem.

[0rganism]

7. Remember, today is Opposite Day in Washington DC

We've had lots of Opposite Days with the bush administration.

[radar]

8. I liked the rebuttal offered at AmericaBlog...

...About "being the umpire, not a player."

...From the memos we've seen, if Roberts were the umpire in charge 50 years ago, when blacks wanted to join the game he would have shrugged his shoulders and said, "Them's the rules." When women wanted to join the game, Roberts would have laughed and said, "Girls don't care about sports." When the players kicked off a teammate because he was gay, Roberts would have said, "Tough. Baseball has always been played by straight white men." And when the air became so polluted that players got ill simply trying to play the game, Roberts would have asked, "What can I do?"
Is that the kind of umpire we want?

Roberts Hearings: Judges Are Just Umpires, Not Players
by Michael in New York - 9/12/2005 04:00:00 PM
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/09/roberts-hearings-judges-are-just.html

*Basically, we wouldn't know about Jackie Robinson, today, if Roberts were deciding things 50-odd years ago. Enforce status quo.

[PatsFan2004]

10. And we could get judges who vote to take away your private

property rights (oh, that already happened), or that you have no right to live when you are incapacitated (oh, that already happened). I guess an activist judicial branch can both be progressive and frightening.

[chelsea0011]

9. Good.........then he's not needed

[cornermouse]

11. Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.

:eyes: His instructions are to say whatever it takes to get in.

[VegasWolf]

12. Did Lieberman kiss and hug Roberts? nt

[defiant1]

13. What a schmuck...

"I come before the committee with no agenda. I have no platform,"

What a load of crap.

Everyone has an agenda, and everyone has a platform.

Standing before the Senate and claiming you have neither is just ridiculous.

:puke:

[politick]

15. Hmm... Sounds familiar...

"I come before the committee with no agenda. I have no platform," the 50-year-old Roberts told the panel.

The nominee to be chief justice said a "certain humility should characterize the judicial role."

Didn't Bush talk about a humble foreign policy in the 200 Election race? And didn't he deny having any agenda besides bringing integrity back to the White House, uniting, et cetera?

[henslee]

17. Watching Roberts hearing made me puke. Sounded like dialogue

"1776" the musical. Self-enamored tone of all these giddy ass kissers speaking made me sick. Bottom line, a bad dude who's going to fuck us, is not going to admit it during the interview. This whole thing is a charade. I myself, get a crap feeling about the guy.

[Scout1071]

19. He only has an opinion after they tell him what it will be.

That is certain. And that is why he has that shit-eating, crazy grin.

[librechik]

20. oh, yeah, sometimes they pick the president when they're not sposed to

But I'll bet he can live with that.

If this is true, he is not just deluded, he is pretty stupid and unaware.

Not what I have been led to believe about him.

Only possibility left is he's lying.

[zara]

21. he has time to develop an agenda!

why hurry?

[Kenergy]

22. Imo, I think he's lying n/t

[Dr Fate]

23. He is lying, just like "Brownie" did.

n/t