Dan Abrams says "He's the right choice. He's conservative enough to satisfy Bush's base." LOL The talking heads are in shock.
"The Record of John G. Roberts, Jr.: A Preliminary Report This preliminary report provides a summary of the record of John Roberts, who has been a judge for less than two years, having been nominated by President George W. Bush to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and confirmed in May 2003. In compiling this report, we have examined Roberts’s pre-judicial record as well as his limited record on the bench, focusing primarily on cases raising concerns with respect to civil rights and individual liberties. Overview: Roberts’s record is a disturbing one. Among other things, Roberts is hostile to women’s reproductive freedom, and he has taken positions in religious liberty and free speech cases that were detrimental to those fundamental rights. Roberts has limited judicial experience, but even his short tenure as a judge raises serious concerns about his ideology and judicial philosophy. For example, dissenting opinions by Roberts have questioned the constitutionality of the Endangered Species Act and argued that Americans tortured by Iraq when it was a terrorist state can receive no compensation. This preliminary review of Roberts’s record indicates that it falls far short of demonstrating the commitment to fundamental civil and constitutional rights that should be shown by a Supreme Court nominee."