Robert's work for Ken Starr

[realFedUp]

http://www.mydd.com/

Surprise, surprise. Roberts's work for Ken Starr was not about being an advocate, it was about furthering the conservative political agenda:
Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr is expected to name Washington attorney John G. Roberts Jr. to be the "political" deputy in the solicitor's office, the government's advocate before the Supreme Court.
Roberts, 34, a former clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, met Starr when both worked as aides to Attorney General William French Smith in the early Reagan years.

from The September 29, 1989, Washington Post reported:

The job, counselor to the solicitor general as well as deputy solicitor general, was created in 1982 after strong conservative criticism that the traditionally independent office was not forceful enough in pushing the administration's social agenda at the high court. Of the five deputies in the office, the political deputy is the only non-career appointee.

This was a position created in order to further a partisan agenda, not to enhance the legal capabilities of the solicitor general. It was created to render a "traditionally independent" office less independent and more politically partisan. Is it that much of a stretch to argue that the second Bush is trying to hire Roberts in order to perform the same function on the Supreme Court?

[realFedUp]

1. Questions to ask Roberts about this....

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/7/20/161152/522

However, it is rather disingenuous to ignore the fact that Roberts would have been likely to have an clear idea of the social issues he would be representing on behalf of the administration.

The Senate may consider the following line of questioning for Mr. Roberts:

(1) Were you aware that the deputy solicitor general post was created to promote 'the administration's social agenda'?
(2) Were you familiar with the major elements of Bush's social agenda when you accepted the position? What were those elements?
(3) What are the factors that you consider when evaluating a prospective position? Do you usually select positions where you will be likely to be defending cases that are consistent with your own value system or ideology?
(4) What motivated you to accept Kenneth Starr's offer?

[SpiralHawk]

2. A blatantly political neo-con corporate jurist

Just what the cabal ordered.

What about his advocacy to deny US Veterans the right to file legal suits against the US Government?

I hope our veterans will stand up and speak out on this part of his background.

[realFedUp]

3. This guy is scary.....scare people about him.

I don't care if he looks like the John
Bircher next door.