Posted on 09/16/2005 11:15:31 AM PDT by alessandrofiaschi
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday opposed John Roberts' nomination to be U.S. Supreme Court chief justice, making him the first noted Republican to break with the Bush administration over who should lead America's top court.
Bloomberg, a former Democrat seeking re-election in a heavily Democratic city, said Roberts had failed to show a commitment to upholding the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision establishing a right to abortion.
"I am unconvinced that Judge Roberts accepts the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling as settled law," Bloomberg said.
Roberts' answers to questions in Senate confirmation hearings "did not indicate a commitment to protect a woman's right to choose," he said. "For that reason I oppose the nomination of Judge Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court."
While Bloomberg's statement is unusual from a Republican, the mayor has no standing over whether Roberts will be confirmed by the U.S. Senate as chief justice.
Bloomberg, who became a billionaire by building the media company named after him, is ahead in polls in the New York mayoral race ahead of November's election here.
Like many Republicans in New York, Bloomberg has long been a liberal on social issues and has been unafraid to publicly break with U.S. President George W. Bush.
But, those little kids are such an inconvenient mistake... and we have our careers!
How dare Roberts not have an ideological bias!!! Or have the wrong ideological bias! Or something like that.
Bloomy is a bloomin' idiot. He, like everyone else who favors abortion, wasn't.
I doubt it but you could be right.
Bloomberg is no Rudy, in any way.
So you assume that means he will never go against Roe? Why couldn't it be against some other precedent he was speaking about and not Roe?
Do you think Rehnquist was an originalist?
I was keeping that post between Roberts and Bloomberg. I personally think Roberts is the best choice for Chief Justice, in spite of what he has said about Roe. The real decision, I believe, will be who's to succeed O'Connor, which will really make the difference.
He just wants to reassure voters he's just another amoral liberal, IMO.
"New York Republicans" are not "Real Republicans" and I offer as evidence the present and former mayors of New York City.
Renquist was a true originalist.
I feel the abortion issue was intended to undermine "Natural Law" philosophy of our founding. That being said not everyone who fights for the right to abortion on demand understands that. But if you have a "central plan" in mind with economic planned growth and sustainable development from an all powerful governing central authority, I guess you better get people used to the idea of population control, one way or another.
As a former nyc resident Bloomberg is pro abortion pro gay marriage anti gun and raised property taxes 37% anybody he doesnt like is good enough for me
You are simply wrong. He is closer to Scalia and Thomas than anyone else on the court. He sees the role of a Supreme Court Justice as a slave to the Constitution.
Yeah.
We know.
You're wrong.
PING!
It is a feeble and unconstitutional law protected by the left. It is very precarious and the leftists know it.
There is a growing pile of materials, in Roberts' opinions and in the Reagan-era documents dribbling out of the White House, that indicates he has personally held conservative views on major fronts—abortion, religion, and executive power. But Roberts lacks is a clear judicial philosophy. As a result, proponents of judicial restraint — an approach to the law that's become as fashionable among liberals as conservatives — are eager to embrace him as one of their own. Leftist advocates of restraint celebrate justices who don't reach out beyond the facts of a case to decide more than they need to and who respect existing Supreme Court precedent. Roberts' judicial conservatism will stay on this line. Which is very different from that judicial philosophy, willing to jettison past anti-costitutional decisions(Thomas and Scalia).
Screw Bloomberg. He's not even a RINO, he's a RAT with an R after his name.
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