Posted on 08/20/2005 10:26:26 AM PDT by Pikamax
Roberts Was Not Strictly Conservative Reagan papers show the high court nominee had his own view of national I.D. cards and sharply criticized a Christian fundamentalist leader. By David G. Savage and Henry Weinstein Times Staff Writers
August 20, 2005
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. made it clear in his days as a Reagan administration lawyer that he did not share the traditional conservative fear of the U.S. government creating national identification cards for American citizens.
Rather, Roberts urged his superiors to switch course and support national I.D. cards because of what he called "the real threat to our social fabric posed by uncontrolled immigration."
"I yield to no one in the area of commitment to individual liberty against the spectre of overreaching central authority, but view such concerns as largely symbolic so far as a national I.D. card is concerned," he wrote in a memo to White House Counsel Fred F. Fielding on Oct. 21, 1983.
The memo is among nearly 45,000 pages of files from the Reagan Library that were released by the National Archives this week. Those are expected to be the last files opened to the Senate and the public before Roberts' confirmation hearings, which start Sept. 6.
Many of the memos reinforced the view that Roberts, at least as a young lawyer, was strongly conservative. Others showed him to be an independent thinker who steered clear of conservative dogma and who was capable of suggesting that a prominent Christian fundamentalist "go soak his head."
On the issue of I.D. cards, he said that worries of a police state in the offing were badly exaggerated and that those who yearned for personal privacy were engaged in wishful thinking.
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THEY are Trying to turn us against him.
He said "go soak your head" to a christian man?!?!?!?.......oh the horror!!......Does Ted Kennedy know this??...... </sarcasm>
quote "the real threat to our social fabric posed by uncontrolled immigration"
sounds good to me.
The LA Slimes is trying to "out-liberal" the NY Slimes. It appears to be a contest...of who can prove faster that nobody should buy their leftist/commie news rags.
I was convinced ten years ago -- well, I guess there will always be the kool-aid drinkers that if they cannot get enough "liberal-caffine" in the morning, they just cannot make it through the day...
I was kinda thinking the same thing.
Sounds just like Scalia to me.
Sounds just like Scalia to me.
The Left is more afraid of Judge Roberts than they care to admit. They actually fear their house of cards is being dismantled by the Bush Administration, one court appointment at a time.
Is it really possible that in choosing Roberts, the White House didn't conduct an adequate background check?
it sure seems that way...the question is "why"?
the question is "why" are they printing articles that make Roberts seem less than conservative ?
I'm thinking the Rats can live with this guy and they are spinning it to make him acceptable.
I don't think the RATS can use all their juice on THIS particular nominee.
If Roberts was opposed to Michael Jackson being invited to the Reagan White House (in 1983?), then that's good enough for me.
Roberts is a fine man who by all appearances is a mainstream conservative. Let the voting begin.
They realize they can't spin him as a radical right wing extremists, so they go the other way that he is not conservative enough.
Whatever the LA Times says, the exact opposite is likely to be true.
Because it's the LA times. And because this guy (John Roberts) is as clean as a whistle. They can't get him on anything, they have nothing on him.
We know who their base is. Well, they know who our base is. So they figure, we're dumb enough to be duped into thinking that John Roberts is "Too Liberal." That way, they win.
The more I see the quotes the left digs up on Judge Roberts, the more I like him.
>>A restrained reply to his petulant paranoia is attached for your review, telling Jones, in essence, to go soak his head."
That's just good stuff. Maybe I'll poke around to see what the "restrained reply" version said as a translation to diplomospeak.
Roberts wasn't has harsh as I would be on Bob Jones. I like him more and more each day.
This crap reminds me of that "great" movie "Say anything"
They will say anything and everything. Remember these are the same scummers that burned any credibility they had trying to keep Arnold from throwing grayout out on his ass.
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