Roberts pushed for Reagan policies

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http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/washington/index.ssf?/base/politics-1/112532844374063.xml&storylist=washington

Roberts pushed for Reagan policies

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee John Roberts pushed the Reagan-era Justice Department to get its conservative policies enacted into law to make it more difficult for future presidents to abrogate them, documents showed Monday.

Roberts, who was an assistant to Attorney General William French Smith in 1982, co-wrote a memo to the attorney general noting that many of the department's conservative policies, including decisions not to seek busing or hiring quotas, "could be instantly reversed when a new administration took office."

"In certain areas — busing and quotas, for example — it makes eminent sense to pursue legislation to guarantee that our policies cannot be easily undone," said Roberts in a March 15, 1982 memo he co-wrote with fellow special assistant Carolyn Kuhl.

The memo was revealed Monday as the National Archives released more of Roberts' working documents from his time as a special assistant to the attorney general from 1981-1982. Roberts, nominated by President Bush to succeed the retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, served as an assistant to the White House counsel and the attorney general under President Reagan and deputy solicitor general under the first President Bush.

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1. Yeah, like reagan policies of illegal war and drug smuggling!

Bush Whitehouse witholding documents showing Roberts role in writing the loophole that allowed Reagan admin to circumvent Congress and fund Contras in Nicaragua

"Democrats Seeking Release of Withheld Roberts Documents: Iran-Contra Among Topics of Reagan-Era Papers"
Washington Post

"The Oliver North File: His Diaries, E-Mail, and Memos on the Kerry Report, Contras and Drugs"
"Documentation of Official U.S. Knowledge of Drug Trafficking and the Contras......"
National Security Archives

Left Coaster's take on this...
"If Roberts Helped Set Up NHAO, Hearings Will Revisit Ties Between Iran Contra and Drugs"...

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