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August 26, 2005
John Roberts E. Lee?
Here's one good reason to support John Roberts for the Supreme Court:
When John G. Roberts Jr. prepared to ghostwrite an article for President Ronald Reagan a little over two decades ago, his pen took a Civil War reenactment detour.
The article, which was to appear in the scholarly National Forum journal, was called "The Presidency: Roles and Responsibilities." Roberts was writing by hand a section on how the congressional appropriations process had evolved.
A fastidious editor of other people's copy as well as his own, Roberts began with the words "Until about the time of the Civil War." Then, the Indiana native scratched out the words "Civil War" and replaced them with "War Between the States."
Okay, so it's not much, but it has the Washington Post in a tizzy. Clearly Roberts is "sympathetic to the Confederate position," which means, in Beltway parlance, that he is a racist.
If, out of "tens of thousands of pages of Roberts files," this is the best they can find, I don't think Roberts has anything about which to worry.
Posted by Mike Tennant at August 26, 2005 01:46 PM
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Mike,
Judge Roberts would have nothing to worry about if this process was rational, instead of political. If the Democrats get worked up enough a filibuster is a distinct possiblity, IMHO.
-Ali
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at August 26, 2005 02:59 PM
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