online.wsj.com - 6/4/2009
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The following is from then-Sen. Barack Obama's floor statement explaining why he would vote against confirming Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts (September 2005): . . . [T]he decision with respect to Judge Roberts' nomination has not been an easy one for me to make. As some of you know, I ...
cafehayek.com - 6/2/2009
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cafehayek.com —
The AP reports (HT: Drudge): White House spokesman
Robert Gibbs is declining to say what it cost...
for President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, to eat dinner and take in a play in New York over the weekend. Asked...
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The more the better, right? (by Russell Roberts)
talkleft.com - 6/5/2009
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talkleft.com —
I wonder if this obvious fact will now
break through to the Media. I have written over...
and over that Chief Justice Roberts has proven to be the most brazen judicial activist the Court has seen in some time. Now conservative legal commentator Stuart ...
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Stuart Taylor: Conservative Roberts Court Is Judicially ...
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Late Night: Beware the Tyranny of the Bitchy and Uninformed.
Firedoglake —
... If I use the same standard that Sen. [Barack] Obama used [with Roberts and Alito], then I would not vote for you, quite frankly.” . . . Graham argued that Obama had voted against Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito because they differed with him on ideology, and that going by that standard, he would not be inclined to support the presumably far more liberal Sotomayor. [Emphasis mine.] ...
Anti-Anti-Sotomayor:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
... would go farther, endorsing a de facto super-majority requirement for all Supreme Court nominations. They make a good case, but I am not yet convinced. I fear that a political culture in which the Senate is less deferential and is a political culture in which too many exceptional individuals will be precluded from potential service on the Court. I would rather (re)establish a norm of focusing on a nominee’s experience and credentials, instead of their judicial philosophy. Then-Senator Obama adopted a quite different view . He accepted that ideology and judicial philosophy are ...
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John Roberts' woman problem. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
slate.com 5/27/2009 — Score one for Bruce Reed . He picked up on what I completely missed this week: that the most telling aspect of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' adolescence was not his staunch refusal to get high in the woods , but his contempt for all things ...
Wrong (by Russell Roberts)
cafehayek.com 6/13/2009 — Over at Freakonomics (HT: Planet Money), Justin Wolfers cites this graph as proof that the rich have gotten most of the income gains in the last 35 years: This alas, is a meaningless chart. It tells you nothing about who...
Op-Ed Contributor - The Trial of John Roberts
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Harry Reid just called Chief Justice John Roberts a liar.
althouse.blogspot.com 3/27/2009 — "Roberts didn’t tell us the truth. At least Alito told us who he was. But we’re stuck with those two young men, and we’ll try to change by having some moderates in the federal courts system as time goes on — I think that will happen." *** 1. ...
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