Posted on 07/20/2005 6:05:00 AM PDT by OESY
...Roberts is a white guy, 50 years old, and you might say he's spent his life trying to get exactly where he is now. He's a conservative Republican version of a Stephen Breyer — the guy with the golden resume, who seems to have decided he wanted a seat on the high court when he was seven years old and methodically sought to make his way there....
He is really better known as a lawyer and not as a legal intellectual, because he has litigated cases rather than written extensively on the theoretical underpinnings of American jurisprudence. And that may have been the fact that tipped the scales in Roberts' favor.
Intellectuals, especially legal intellectuals, tend to be a bit prickly, in part because there's so much sophistry in legal argumentation that sarcasm and disbelief often become the stock in trade when thinkers have at it. The greatest example of this in our time, of course, is Justice Nino Scalia, whose outraged opinions are almost like Mort Sahl monologues....
So he's boring, right? It was a boring choice, right? Not exactly. President Bush did not seek to box in his liberal opponents by using an affirmative-action appointment difficult to argue against. He went for a relatively young jurist whose contemporaries among conservative judicial thinkers consider him rock-solid, intellectually serious and cut from the same cloth as his one-time mentor, William Rehnquist.
Still, even Chuck Schumer — who did vote against Roberts' ascension to the federal bench a few years ago — said Roberts possessed "outstanding legal credentials" and an "appropriate legal demeanor."...
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He looks like a young and healthy 50. 30 years should be no problem on the bench. Shumer is losing sleep already. How great is that?
Maybe the next pick will be spicier. Last night I dreamed that GWB got to pick all 9 Sup Ct justices. I wonder, if he did, what the balance would be?
I woke up with a smile on my face this morning with a quote from a TV reporter still ringing in my ears: "Chuck Schummer appeared to be visibly shaken when told of the Roberts nomination". There are very few things that can make my day as much as something like that can...
This should be good coming up so closely to the anniversery the swimmer would like to forget, but we won't let him!
If the media is bored, well tough noogies.
When ever I see Schumer on the toob, I remember my mom's advice: "Quit making those dirty looks, Eric, or your face will freeze up that way."
I'm reminded of that scene in the original "Willy Wonka" movie, where Verruca Salt's father has all of his slave laborers furiously opening thousands of Wonka bars in hopes of getting his daughter a golden ticket. You see the hundreds of poor workers slaving away at this single quest, and Mr. Salt screams from his office door "WORK HARDER! FASTER!".
Absolutely!
And it is going to be fun watching them do it.
(I still wish he had nominated Judge Brown, though.)
Your mother probably had no idea of what a putz Chuckie is or she clearly would have given her OK, IMHO.
I suspect in the end they will try to torpedo him for being a 'boring', middle aged white guy.
Good question. If the answer is not obvious, that in itself says a lot about him.
And you haven't been able to crack a smile since, eh???
It has been an excellent pick by President Bush: conservative, (relatively) young, confirmed three years ago even by the Democrats.
Hard to believe there will be a SC justice only a few years older than I am. Maybe soon we will have a president younger than I am. ;-)
I forget which talking head last night said Roberts would be in line to succeed Rehnquist as chief justice now, even if Rehnquist retires relatively soon, like within 6 months. That would be an interesting move but I wonder if it wouldn't be a bit of an insult to the more senior Scalia or Thomas.
Schumer's seems to wrap clear around his head.
He was confirmed in 2003, not in 2001. Sorry for the mistake.
The 12-year old arrested for a french fry case is the molehill that liberals are working on right now.
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