Great the man who worked to stop counting votes is now Chief Justice.

[Botany]

Fact Judge Roberts worked in Jeb Bush's office from November
to December in 2000 to keep the votes in Florida from being
recounted. Every count since then has shown that if all the votes had
been counted Al Gore would have won Florida.

Please spare me the "He has a keen legal mind" B.S.. Roberts worked
to keep the democratic will of the American people from being
implemented. End of Story. Just another self loathing gay (allegedly)
power monkey who helps out the bush crime family.

[tatertop]

1. just the thought of it is making me ill

we all know this man is a monster

[mattclearing]

2. Did the Dems ask about that in the hearings? n/t

[buff2]

3. Bush is appointing all of his criminal friends

I don't think he knows any other kind of people. Everyone he has appointed to ANY job either has a criminal back ground, bad reputations,or they are not qualified for the job.

You would think people would notice that,wouldn't you? Sleaze appointing sleaze. How appropriate. :puke:

[bballny]

4. No different

than Rehnquist. In the great tradition of the GOP. Deny the vote we want less people voting.

[The Sleeper]

5. Didn't you get the memo ???

Voting is a quaint and outmoded idea.....

[Botany]

6. I live in Columbus OH ..... Franklin County

Not did i get the memo .... I am at ground zero for voter
disruption.

To this day I still get livid @ why bush won talk. I know BECAUSE HE
FUCKING CHEATED. I saw "it" with my own eyes I heard "it" with my own
ears ..... and by it I mean voting machine going down in front of my face
@ poll I was watching and when they got the data from that machine it was 42%
bush vote and the other 2 machines in that precinct had 31% bush vote.
The machine also had the highest total of bush votes even though it had the
lowest numerical total of votes in it. By hearing "it" i mean I heard on 11/3/04
a very sophisticated phone hack that kept anybody from accessing the
voter fraud hot line that was set up by the state dem party .... the hack
disappeared within 1 hour of Kerry conceding ..... it was then replaced with
a fast busy signal.

[PurityOfEssence]

7. Yes, and this is the most salient point to show him as unfit for the job

There is the letter of the law and there is the spirit of the law. To a certain degree, popular common sense is somewhat correct in tarring someone as a criminal merely from an indictment: by the time one has "committed a crime", one is long since past the boundaries of decent behavior. Laws are the stop-gap measure to contain extreme wanton behavior. (Yes, people can also be unfairly smeared by accusation, but I'm speaking in broad terms here.)

There is nothing more sacred in a pluralist society than abiding by the decision of one's fellow citizens. To seek to subvert their desires is to put oneself above the law and in some kind of self-proclaimed aristocracy. It's anti-democratic.

Many issues come to light here, including Jeb's lie that he was recusing himself from the recount issue.

Roberts' job was to find ways to subvert the will of the people, and Florida law makes this damn near impossible: there are numerous precedents on the books that are consistent and specific about "voter intent" overriding technical mistakes on ballots and the like. Regardless of the mistakes on a ballot, if the intent of the voter is clear, the vote stands. Gore would have won if this had been applied: those who had punched "Gore" and another choice, but then wrote "Gore" on the card were disqualified. That's against the law.

The principal issue above all else is this: A Supreme Court Justice deals more with the spirit of laws than the letter of them. That's why avowed "state's rights" champions like Scalia and Thomas were such villains in the '00 race: they intervened in a state process to force their wishes. Scalia and Clarence the talking Tool are also bigtime "original intent" guys, yet they clearly fuck us all in favor of theocracy; Roberts is a precedent guy (allegedly) so he will fuck us by upholding the illegal encroachment of religion into our government.

For someone who has a private agenda and prides himself on semantic maneuvering to get his way, Roberts is the sinner of the worst kind: one who completely avoids the spirit of the law for personal gain. Since the spirit of the law is paramount in the lofty realm of the Supreme Court, he is precisely the worst kind of quibbler to give the reins of power.