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August 31, 2005
A New Quota?
Just when you think the liberals can't get any worse, this comes up.
The last thing they tried was to try and portray Supreme Court nominee John Roberts as "anti-woman".
Now, he doesn't have enough black friends:
Some Congressional Black Caucus members and civil rights advocates are concerned about Judge John G. Roberts Jr.'s "secluded" northern Indiana upbringing and want senators to ask the Supreme Court nominee about his history of interactions with minorities.Asking a nominee about his personal history with minorities is rare in judicial nominations, and there is disagreement even among black leaders on whether those questions are fair and how much weight should be given to the answers.
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Ron Walters, chairman of the African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland, said questions about Judge Roberts' background can serve a purpose."The context would have to be explanatory, and that would be, how did his growing up shape his conservatism and his outlook on social issues and society," he said.
He said it is likely that Judge Roberts had few "multicultural experiences" at Harvard University, and so he would have kept the same views and attitudes he had growing up in a mostly white, conservative state.
I'd say this was unbelieveable, but I've come to believe that anything is possible for the left when it comes to stopping John Roberts.
They're scared, folks, very scared. The last branch of government where they have significant influence is the Supreme Court, and they see it slipping away.
What really gets me is how Republicans, properly, gave Clinton nominees Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer an easy time during the nominations. Both were qualified in the sense of academic credentials, and after all, Bill Clinton did win election, so deserved to have all reasonable nominees approved.
But we now seem to have a new standard. Take Ginsburg, for example. She may have been qualified academically, but any honest examination of her record shows her to be a left-wing ideologue.
We'll see what actually happens once the hearings start. But if Democrats go after Roberts like they're hinting they might do, then it will be them setting the new standard. And this is going to come back to haunt them the next time there's a democrat in the White House
Posted by Tom at August 31, 2005 8:46 AM
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