Posted on 07/29/2005 10:08:49 PM PDT by Coleus
As someone who's been following the antics of the Federalist Society for almost a decade, I was greatly amused by the flap over whether Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is a card-carrying member.
He isn't, it turns out. But he did speak at a number of Federalist Society functions. He's a fellow traveler, in other words. That's enough for the left-wing McCarthyites who are trying to portray him as member of some sort of right-wing conspiracy and as an enemy of liberty.
In fact, no one in America is quite as obsessed with the nature of liberty as the members of the Federalist Society. That's all they talk about. And they fight like ... I was going to say "cats and dogs," but actually they fight like lawyers and lawyers. You can't have much of a conspiracy when one conspirator can't complete a sentence without another conspirator challenging the subject, dismissing the predicate and questioning the adjective.
You wouldn't know that from looking at the Web site of People for the American Way, a key Roberts opponent. The group lists the Federalist Society, which is in essence a law school debating society, under its "Right-Wing Watch" banner. The society, we are told, "hopes to transform the American legal system by developing and promoting far-right positions and influencing who will become judges, top government officials and decision makers."
But just what are these "right positions"? I had a phone chat on this question the other day with Randy Barnett, a law professor who is one of the top dogs in the dogfight known as the Federalist Society. Not too long ago, Barnett was in the news because of the far-right position he took in arguing that medicinal marijuana case before the SCOUTS.
Barnett argued that the potheads should have their pot.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Worse, the crats would probably demand everything I ever posted on internet newsgroups, and then I really would be tagged as a right-winger.
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