Posted on 09/15/2005 4:11:01 AM PDT by nj26
Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.'s testimony about the existence of a right to privacy, the importance of respecting precedent, and the need for the Constitution to adapt to changing conditions has alarmed some rank-and-file conservatives, who are filling up Internet message boards with predictions that Roberts may turn out to be a moderate justice.
Many say they believe that Roberts's answers have shown him to be to the left of Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, whom President Bush promised to use as models in selecting new justices. Some compare Roberts to David Souter and Anthony Kennedy -- Republican appointees who proved to be moderates who supported abortion rights.
One writer on the conservative FreeRepublic.org site wrote that yesterday's questioning by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware, had ''exposed Roberts" as a moderate.
''Biden gave Roberts every opportunity to even minimally associate himself with Scalia and Thomas, and he ran away from them like he was running from a burning building -- not a good sign," the post said.
Bush chose Roberts, a highly respected lawyer with a short judicial tenure, over conservative judges with longer track records on issues of importance to conservatives. Still, almost all conservative judicial groups endorsed Roberts, recognizing that his lack of a long judicial record made him less susceptible to liberal attacks.
But the first three days of Roberts's confirmation hearings, during which the nominee has taken pains to portray himself as a cautious moderate, sparked concerns among grass-roots conservatives that Roberts may join a long line of Republican Supreme Court appointees who proved to be more liberal on the bench than the presidents who chose them.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The editors of the "Boston Globe" probably figure that the dolts who read their rag don't have the brains to try .com after .org doesn't work.
With the flack generated by the democrats with Robert’s nomination, imagine what it would be like if the nominee were a hard core right wing conservative.
Selectively. . .of course.
Heheh, my thought as well. It's what I do. Try them all.
Senate hearings have become nothing but Dog and Pony shows...
. . .but it can be held against them and so prevent a nominee from ever getting 'to the bench'. . .
Boston Globe.
All homo, all the time.
Or go to google and simply type free republic.
Roberts could just be playing the hustler and giving them just enough of what they want to hear. Saying and doing are two different things. I'm not too worried though, Bush and his constituents are brilliant tacticians when it comes to playing the Dummies, Roberts could have been picked as a stealth candidate with the knowledge that the head spot would soon open for him.It is clear that Roberts is extraordinarily well coached/prepared.
It is also really a shame that the abortion debate has led conservatives to argue that there is no right to privacy. What is more conservative than for the government to leave you alone unless you are hurting someone? The framers were correctly concerned that listing some rights might mistakenly lead people to conclude that other rights no longer existed.
On the other hand, the liberal position that somehow the right to privacy gives a woman the right to kill her child is insane.
Hopefully Roberts will correctly recognize a right to privacy but not apply that to abortion. In this age with hundreds of thousands of surveillance cameras and electronic communication privacy will be a top five issue in the coming decade and we do need a conservative justice able to reconcile that right without going crazy.
President Bush promised to nominate strict constructionists to the Court. At this point, it appears Judge Roberts is not one.
Draw your pwn conclusions.
I am sure glad the Boston Globe is looking out for us.
Roberts was asked is the opposite of Alive, Dead?
Answer: Yes.
That's good enough for me cause no one no matter what side of the fence can call a fetus DEAD.
You get where that's going?
Time to see if the "Useful Idiots" aka Single Issue Conservatives will again jump to the call of the Liberals.
I was able to watch the questioning yesterday by Turbin and let me tell you, Roberts almost had him crying again! Turbin and the other Senators are not in Roberts league.
The papers of the Constitutional Convention is very clear in how the judicial body was formed and why it is an independent body.
It is why the reponsibility was given to the President and advice and consent to the senate. It is why the appointment is for life, i.e., there is no political job waiting at the end of a term.
The Senate is there to establish that the nominee is a man of good character with sufficient experience to read and interpret law and work with the court AND NO MORE.
FreeRepublic.org
I hear FreeRepublic.org is just a cheap knockoff of FR. Like instead of ping, they say ring. And they don't zot a troll, they "extricate." Moderators are called "hall monitors" and if you're bad they tell you to "hush" or they might give you a "time out." They're sort of like skinny, fussy librarians with their hair done up in really, really tight buns.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.