This editorial cuts at the SCOTUS nominee, John Roberts...

...for what he truely is, a supremacist: "...it would have been hard for Bush to have found anyone more right-wing. Roberts stands against the working class, against women, against civil rights and against all that is progressive. He should be opposed unequivocally."

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Supremacist Court
Why Bush’s pick must be stopped
Published Jul 20, 2005 10:19 PM

On July 15, Judge John Roberts gave the Bush administration a judicial victory, joining a unanimous three-judge panel to rule that the prisoners of war being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have no rights under the Geneva Conventions. On July 19, the former lawyer, who once represented Fox Television, became Bush’s choice for the Supreme Court.

There is no doubt among the far right that Bush has fulfilled his promise to choose someone who is “like” Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. The Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, chair of the Traditional Values Coalition, says Roberts is an “all-star” on key social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. (Los Angeles Times, July 20)

Roberts, the son of a manager at Bethlehem Steel in Buffalo, N.Y., has been a right-wing activist since “he became interested in conservative politics after seeing—and not liking—anti-war sentiment on the campus” when he was a student in the 1970s. (Chicago Tribune, July 20) In the early 1980s he became a clerk for William Rehnquist and a member of the Federalist Society. Self-described as a “right-wing cabal” (Associated Press, July 18), the society is an activist organization aimed at ridding law, the courts and Congress of “liberal bias.” Its members include Scalia, Thomas and Robert Bork.

NARAL Pro-Choice America was among the first to respond to the nomination: “We are extremely disappointed that President Bush has chosen such a divisive nominee for the highest court in the nation.” That’s probably because in 1991, he wrote a high court brief arguing that Roe v. Wade “was wrongly decided and should be overruled.” Also, his spouse, Jane Marie Sullivan, has served as executive vice president of an anti-abortion group, Feminists for Life. (Philadelphia Inquirer, July 19)

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<link> http://www.workers.org/2005/editorials/supreme-court-0728/

We've got five long hot weeks for the truth about Roberts to drip, drip, drip.

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