John Roberts: Brash and Opinionated

[kerrygoddess]

John Roberts: Brash and Opinionated
August 18th, 2005

It seems that John Roberts is one brash and opinionated sort of guy, especially when it comes to sexual discrimination…

As a brash young lawyer in the Reagan White House, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. scoffed at state efforts to pass gender-discrimination laws, advised caution in aiding private support for Contra rebels in Nicaragua and called an expansive crime bill backed by Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter “the epitome of the ‘throw money at the problem’ approach.”

Of all the new documents, Roberts expresses his strongest - and most potentially controversial - opinion in a Jan. 17, 1983, memo to his boss, White House Counsel Fred Fielding, about efforts by states to pass gender-equity laws.

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[eleny]

1. My favorite Bill Maher line about Roberts:

Oh, that guy! He's got mashed bananas in his shorts.

[kerrygoddess]

2. Good one!

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