Alito and Roberts were entrenched. IOW, they were partisan hacks!

[ProSense]

Role in Fla. recount now in focus

Judge advised Governor Bush in 2000 battle

By Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times | July 23, 2005

WASHINGTON -- As the 2000 presidential recount battle raged in Florida, a Washington lawyer named John G. Roberts Jr. traveled to Tallahassee, the state capital, to dispense legal advice.
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He operated in the shadows during at least some of those 37 days, never signing a legal brief and rarely making an appearance at the makeshift headquarters for George W. Bush's legal team.

But now Roberts has been selected for the very Supreme Court that settled the recount by putting Bush into office, chosen by the president to replace the swing vote in the 5-to-4 decision. And his work in Florida during that time is suddenly coming into focus, giving critics some ammunition to paint a respected jurist with an apparently unblemished legal career as an ideological partisan.

Republican lawyers who worked on the recount said Wednesday that Roberts advised Governor Jeb Bush on the role that he and the Florida Legislature might play in the recount battle. At the time, when GOP officials feared that Vice President Al Gore might win a recount battle in court, Republican state lawmakers were devising a plan to use their constitutional power to simply assign the state's electoral votes to Bush -- a plan that drew a sharp rebuke from Democrats.

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Roberts Gave GOP Advice in 2000 Recount

Alito one of the original architects of signing statement:

The founding fathers never conceived of anything like a signing statement. The idea was cooked up by Edwin Meese III, when he was the attorney general for Ronald Reagan, to expand presidential powers. He was helped by a young lawyer who was a true believer in the unitary presidency, a euphemism for an autocratic executive branch that ignores Congress and the courts. Unhappily, that lawyer, Samuel Alito Jr., is now on the Supreme Court.

Question: Why did Roberts and Alito turn out so conservative? Answer: Partisan entrenchment

Unitary executive anyone?

[MH1]

1. Guess they got their reward. n/t

[BlackHawk706867]

2. I would say that we are screwed... Anything that is or will be decided...

in a court room will hit these guys sooner or later....

ww

[frogcycle]

3. The lesson that people of good will

have a hard time learning is that there are circumstances in which being as absolutely obstructionist as the most contrary right-wing hate monger is actually called for.

Nothing - I repeat, nothing - the cabal has done has been without chicanery and ulterior motive. The dems would have done better to just block every appointment, filibuster every bill, get called every name in the book, but serve as some amount of a boat anchor on this gang's activities.

Of course, that might have been suicide, if the bad guys never got exposed for what they were - they might have swept in more of their kind in a real mandate in reaction to the obstructionism - but in hindsight, it would have been worth the gamble.

sheesh

Its like watching my dad die. Whatever I did to make it easier over the last few months, it was not going to change the outcome. Now I'm watching the Constitution die.

[ProSense]

4. Kick! n/t

[fedupinBushcountry]

5. K&R

:kick:

[L. Coyote]

6. Look at the Florida Recount Personnel list. What a bunch of crooks and liars.

Not just a few of whom reappear for the Supremes confirmation team.