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D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Not THAT John Roberts
for Supreme Court

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." 

John Roberts - the CBS version.


David Boies in judge's robes -- taken at a moot court event at New York Law School, two years ago.


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...."