Who is John G. Roberts Jr and why should we care

The media keeps presenting this fellow has a sort of blank slate, which he is not, with the excuse that he's only been on the bench for two years and therefore doesn't have much of a record.

I thought it might be a good idea to try to compile whatever we can find on him and put it together in one place. So far what I have found is not reassuring to say the least.





Here's a record of his campaign contributions. The one that is of most concern is the $1000 he gave to the Bush Recount effort in 2000. I guess we now know which way he would vote if the SC ever has to select a president again. There is also rumors that he worked behind the scenes in FL helping the Bush team in FL? I'm still looking for confirmation.





Roberts argued for blockading abortion clinics.




Roberts was a former deputy solicitor under Kenneth Starr.




Roberts' wife is a pro-life activist. I think we can assume that he is too. Even though he has flip flopped on his stated opinion regarding Roe v Wade.




On one hand Roberts thinks Roe v Wade should be overturned, then he flip flops and that he would uphold the precedent. Which one is it Roberts? You can't have it both ways.




Roberts reversed a lower court's ruling that military tribunals to try terrorist detainees violated the Geneva Convention.





This is just the tip of the iceburg has they say. We can continue to add to this list has we find out more.

that put Bush in office.

Oh, and he meets with Santorum's gushing approval. That says enough.

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Another Bush judicial appointee with experience representing the mining industry is John G. Roberts, Jr., a former colleague of George Miller's at the Hogan & Hartson law and lobbying firm. Roberts was one of the co-authors of Miller’s amicus brief on behalf of the National Mining Association’s challenge to the government ban on ‘mountaintop removal’. In 2003, Roberts was confirmed to the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, where earlier this year he ruled against environmentalists who were pushing for more restrictive government regulations of copper smelters--many of whom are members of the National Mining Association that Roberts once represented. As a lobbyist in the 1990s, Roberts worked on behalf of the peanut industry, pushing federal legislation that maintained government subsidies which the GAO estimated cost consumers $500 million a year. Agricultural and mining interests are often involved in regulatory cases that come before the DC Circuit Court where Roberts now sits.

http://courtinginfluence.net/stories_print.php?id=7

Roberts defended the Alaska sex offender registry.





Here's a link to the PDF file for Roberts rulings in the case where more than two thousand victims, family members of victims or representatives of victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, seek to hold accountable the persons and entities that funded and supported the international terrorist organization known as al Qaeda, which is now generally understood to have carried out the attacks. Plaintiffs have sued nearly two hundred entities or persons -- governments, government agencies, banks, charitable foundations, and individuals, including members of the Saudi royal family -- broadly alleging that each of them, in one way or another, directly or indirectly, provided material support, aided and abetted, or conspired with the terrorists who perpetrated the attacks.

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/02-1616memop.pdf

He's got scary crazy eyes.