Roberts 'Played' for Playboy in SCOTUS Case

Human Events Online ^ | August 11, 2005 | Robert Bluey

[Theodore R.]

It was mentioned that Judge Luttig is a close friend of Roberts's and that GWB considered Luttig for the opening. I just saw the film about Luttig permitting a suit to proceed against the publisher of Hit Man.

[George W. Bush]

Be careful....you aren't posting like an UNAPPEASEABLE at all. :-)

Shhhh!! You're gonna get me kicked out of The Club!!

I think we all need to take a deep breath and have some lemonade. This isn't like the illegal immigration thing or the borders thing or the Pirro thing or the pork-laden GOP budgets or the Arnold-vs-McClintock thing. There really isn't all that much we can do.

A nice glass of lemonade sounds good.

[nopardons]

Roberts and Luttig are old, very close friends.

The Luttig rumor was just that...A RUMOR, with no basis in reality. Nobody knew who the president was going to nominate, nor who was on his short list. There were NO leaks from the White House; just unsubstantiated speculation and hyperventilating here.

[nopardons]

I won't tell, if you won't. :-)

Want some freshly made ice tea? I just made some a bit ago.

Ummmmmmmmm...there isn't anything that could have/can be done about most of the things you listed. LOL

[RightWingAtheist]

I knew you would be first here to come out guns blazing :)

I propose a new group, RPRR: Republican Party Reptiles for Roberts!

[Oztrich Boy]

I am sure there will be 20 Fox News Alerts on this shocking story of a lawyer doing work for hire.

Wait. Rewind that. John Roberts is a lawyer? Why is such a person being considered for the Supreme Court?

[Soul Seeker]

Roberts isn't a 'movement conservative'. If you subtract the typical .003 crowd that seeks any stepping stone to destroy this President, this is the main issue those with concerns have as it would reassure he was on 'their' side if he were.

People are correct when they state he is not Scalia in a sense. He is not a movement conservative.

What he is, from writings I've read, is a person dedicated to preserving the three branches and interpretating the Constitution. This is the sense the President promised when noting Scalia and Thomas in his campaign promises. He did not promise a conservative that would give fiery speeches blasting liberalism.

I'm content in the nomination, I've yet to see anything that would alter my position.

You are also correct in that no Justice would ever be good enough for everyone. Luttig would have had his critics. Scalia has critics. A few weeks before the President made his selection Luttig was being blasted for a ruling against the administration in the WOT, now Coulter cites him as the person the administration should have chosen. A few months ago Scalia was being ridivuled for the marijuana case, now conservatives think him without blemish when it serves purpose to tear Roberts down. Conservatives cannot have it both ways.

[George W. Bush]

Ummmmmmmmm...there isn't anything that could have/can be done about most of the things you listed. LOL

Hold it right there. I'm not that much of a pushover.

Porkbarrel spending is certainly something that is subject to political activism.

The reason I excluded the Roberts matter is that we'd all be old and gray before we all figured out exactly what we all meant by terms like 'strict constructionism' or even 'Scalia-type judge'. Then we could finally debate if Roberts was either one.

It's not the same thing with more purely political issues like vast waste in federal spending and obvious porkbarrel projects. Or whether you favor a no-borders policy (though I'm afraid even to type the word 'borders' on FR any more as much as I'd like to close the borders to only legal immigrants).

Those other matters are much more susceptible and more suited to a broad democratic involvement. And that really takes us back to the Supremes who have actually barred us so often from being represented by our own elected officials. Something that Roberts' constructionism and conservative tendencies are supposed to cure. Frankly, I don't see how one guy accomplishes all that but I hope he'll help out.

[nopardons]

Wonderful reply and I concur 100% !

Coulter is going to be on Hannity & nut-job in a few minutes and from what I can gather, from the blurb, Ann is going to do an about face on Roberts. Well, maybe that is going to far, but it sounds as though she is going to back-peddle on her original ravings.

[nopardons]

Well, yes, we could and should all work against the foul pork barrel spending, but frankly, I have been doing that, in one way or another, for the past 40 years; to no avail.

I hope what you wrote was a typo, but please clear this up for me...you want to close the borders to LEGAL immigrants?

Have you ever been on any AFRICA WATCH THREADS? I don't recall you being on any, but if you have been and said that all the whites should just leave, I'm going to run and get my 2X4 !

And for the record I am completely against ILLEAGAL immigrants.

[George W. Bush]

I hope what you wrote was a typo, but please clear this up for me...you want to close the borders to LEGAL immigrants?

Clumsy phrasing. I favor only legal immigration and closed borders.

And for the record I am completely against ILLEAGAL immigrants.

I prefer 'illegal aliens'. There's no such thing as an illegal immigrant. I think the phrase was invented by Dims to soften us up.

[nopardons]

Oh, okay, we're on the same page and I'll use alien, of you prefer that. :-)

[George W. Bush]

BTW, you know that because we have typed the words 'immigrant' and 'borders' in several of our posts, this thread will soon reach a total of 1500 rabid posts on That Subject?

[nopardons]

*sigh*

That's NOT a good thing. Back to the topic ASAP!

[oldbrowser]

If anything it tells us that he isn't likely to let his personal views interfere with his duties.

Sounds like the missing ingredient in most judges.

[George W. Bush]

Back to the topic ASAP!

Actually, we may have wrung the Playboy episode dry. Well, unless some kind soul wishes to post pictures or video so that we FReeper men can render our impartial judgment on whether or not the Playboy content can be regulated under the interstate commerce clase as obscene materials subject to regulation.

I assure you, that would our only interest in reviewing such repugnant material...

[CA Conservative]

But is it not within the government's jurisdiction to keep the cable company pushing something into my house that I have asked them to stop doing?

Wrong question, based on a bad premise. Since you are paying the cable company for their service, you have invited them into your home. If they are bringing in something you don't want, don't ask them into your house. In other words, just cancel your service.

It is not the job of the government to police the behavior of your invited guests (the cable company) while they are in your house at your request. That is why there is a difference in law with regard to broadcast TV vs. cable. You have to go our of your way to receive cable - not so with the broadcast channels.

[RustysGirl]

There isn't a thing ANYONE HERE can do to derail Roberts' nomination! It's a fete acomplee.

Mon cher ami, ceci devrait être un "accompli de fait" ou "fait accompli."

[tame]

f.y.i.

[rcocean]

The problems is we've heard this in the past. O'Conner was a close personal friend of Renquist. Blackmun was nominated because Burger vouched for him to Nixon. They were also close personal friends - until Blackmun turned out to be a liberal democrat. Of course, Luttig is going to support him. Do all of Luttig's friends agree 100 percent with his Judicial philosophy?

Ann keeps making the same point. And you keep missing it.
Its completely irrelevant who's friends with who or who went to who's wedding. And frankly, I don't give a D**n that he has a nice family, argued 500 cases at the SCOTUS, has an IQ of 200, went to Harvard, or any of that nonsense. You can probably say the same thing about Ginsberg and Breyer.

You write like a liberal. Ann is a "bomb-thrower", I'm a "right-wing Extremist". Kind of a funny way for a so-called conservative to write. Yeah, I'm an extremist just like Reagan, Coulter, Novak, Malkin, NR, and Human Events. Pretty soon you'll be calling her a "fascist" and me a "reactionary racist".

BTW, You and others keep talking about how "Coulter has NOT done her research" or "knows nothing". Well, who are you? Whats your support for that? Are you a friend of Roberts? An expert in his Judicial career? Or are you just parroting something you heard on TV>