JULY
24, 2005 --
Early
this year, LPR published this photo of John Roberts. This John
Roberts is a correspondent for CBS News. He is not the
federal judge John [middle initial
"G."] Roberts who just got nominated by President Bush to
serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
LPR is not aware that any group generally disposed against Bush
nominations will claim that nomination of not THAT John Roberts
was a transparent attempt to confuse the American people into
supporting the president's choice of the
Hon. John G. Roberts for the Supreme Court.
LPR does expect that the public hearings on the Roberts nomination
will take place in September.
August will likely be used by partisans to gerar up for or against
the Roberts, choice. Already, a pro-Roberts TV commercial
was telecast in New York City, July 24, urging people to ask
U.S. senators to allow an up or down vote on the nomination.
LPR does not have a photo of the nominee for its clicksters.
We do have, however, a photo of David Boies taken two years ago
when he was chief justice at
the final round of a moot court competition at New York Law School.
LPR still thinks the Boies choice as Supreme Court would have
been most interesting. Perhaps next time?
Quoting from Roe v. Wade …
The
following quote from Justice Blackmun's opinion in Roe v. Wade,
410 U.S.113 (1973) appears on page 590, in
the Tenth Edition of Gerald Gunther's "Cases and Materials
on Constitutional Law" (1980); "[P]opulation growth,
pollution, poverty, and racial overtones tend to complicate
and not to simplify the
[abortion] problem."
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John
Roberts - the CBS version.
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David Boies
in judge's robes -- taken at a moot court event at New
York Law School, two years ago.
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Justice Blackmun
then stated, "Our task, of course, is to resolve the issue
by constitutional measurement, free of emotion and predilection." It
is not clear to LPR that the issue has yet moved beyond "emotion
and predilection," including Justice Blackmun's brief
reference to "population growth, pollution, poverty, and
racial overtones...."
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