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  • For top court, Bush picks conservative - "Harvard-educated white man"

    07/20/2005 1:47:13 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 95 replies · 5,906+ views
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | July 20, 2005 | BILL ADAIR, Times Washington Bureau Chief
    WASHINGTON - President Bush nominated conservative appellate Judge John G. Roberts Jr. for the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday night, calling him "one of the best legal minds of his generation." Bush, making one of the most significant decisions of his presidency, said in a televised address that Roberts "has the qualities Americans expect in a judge: experience, wisdom, fairness and civility." The selection of Roberts, a former law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist and an aide in the Reagan White House, won praise from Republicans and skepticism from Democrats. Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said...