After spending the first half of his career licking the boots of the likes of William Rehnquist and Ed Meese, John G. Roberts has earned his space among the Bush administration’s prominent yes men. Plucked straight from the Condie Rice School of Opportunism, Dubya’s new golden boy promises to be quite the Supreme Court Superman, dodging the Constitution and allowing Karl Rove to leap from the front page in a single bound. Conservative pundits are already predicting that Roberts’ tenure will usher in some sort of Edenic golden age (my favorite comment came courtesy of Charles Fried on The Charlie Rose Show, who predicted that abortion would soon become a non-issue while whimsically pondering what kinds of cases young Roberts would encounter in the next 25 years).

Confirmation could be a breeze, since there’s not much of a record to attack. This is not to say, of course, that Dems should assume that we have another Souter or O’Connor on our hands (here is a sampling of recent red flags in the Roberts repertoire). Of course, we’re dealing with an administration that would not mind some partisan barking in the Senate right about now, just loud enough to blare out Joseph Wilson and divert attention from those pesky Iraqi civilian death totals.

Check out NARAL’s site for info on putting in your own two cents.

– Nate Titman, Clamor Intern

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 at 3:10 pm by Intern. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.