The Mystery of the Missing Roberts Papers

[journalist3072]

When Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts worked for Ronald Reagan's Administration, one of the issues on which he advised the Reaganites was affirmative action.

So you might be asking yourself, well how does our nation's Chief Justice feel about affirmative action?

Don't look for an answer any time soon.

John Robert's papers on affirmative action mysteriously disappeared last July, when, surprise, lawyers for the Bush Administration were reviewing them at the Ronald Reagan library in California (before Bush officially nominated Roberts to the Supreme Court).

And, the papers are still missing.

Federal investigators have not been successful in tracking the missing John Roberts affirmative action file.

They have concluded, however, that proper procedures were not followed by Archives staff when BushCo. lawyers were reviewing the file. For example, the two lawyers who were reviewing the file, were allowed to do so in a private office, as opposed to a public reading room under the supervision of Archives staff.

What's more, in what appears to be a departure from normal policy, they were allowed to bring their personal belongs with them into the room that they used to review the file.

Anyone else find it curious that out of all the papers Roberts accumalated during his Reagan years, it's his work on affirmative action that's seemed to have disappeared into thin air?

Is there a reason why the Bushies didn't want us to know Roberts' views on affirmative action, when they nominated him?


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[yourout]

1. Cause he is a woman hating pig.

[journalist3072]

3. Me thinks you are on to something here!

Roberts Scoffed at Promotion for O'Connor
By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer

Friday, August 19, 2005

(08-19) 15:35 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --


As a lawyer in the Reagan White House, John Roberts scoffed at the notion of elevating Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to chief justice as a way to close a political gender gap, calling it a "crass political consideration."


On another topic, Roberts, who was nominated as a justice by President Bush last month, advised the White House to strike language from a description of a housing bill that referred to the "fundamental right to be free from discrimination." He said that "there of course is no such right."


More than 38,000 pages of documents released this week by the National Archives offer new details that portray Roberts as embracing the conservative philosophy of the Reagan administration.


Some Democrats and liberal interest groups called anew on Friday for the release of more documents that might shed light on Roberts' views. His confirmation hearings are to begin Sept. 6.


"Many of the documents made it clear that as a junior official in the Reagan administration, he was part of an intense effort to impede progress on numerous key issues, such as progress on equal rights for women," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., a member of the Judiciary Committee that will consider Roberts' nomination.


Added Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.: "The question before the Senate is whether this is the person who should replace the first female justice of the Supreme Court."

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[global1]

2. Was Sandy Berger Anywhere Near These Papers?......nt

[babylonsister]

4. I honestly couldn't be more disgusted. If Roberts had nothing to

hide, why couldn't he have produced the missing links?

[journalist3072]

5. That was exactly the point I was trying to hit home in my post

Out of all the papers that could go missing, it's the one on affirmative action.

What are they hiding from us? Why don't they want us to know his views on affirmative action?