As we review more and more documents, I think we're finding more evidence that Roberts would vote with the far-right wing of the court and against civil rights protections.
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They are coming clean on how meaningless his evasive 2003 testimony was. It's now even clearer than before that the far-right activists who've been turning handsprings in celebration of Roberts's nomination are getting exactly what they wanted a proven activist opponent of personal freedoms like a woman's right to choose.
At the same time, there is a growing pile of tidbits, in Roberts' opinions and in the Reagan-era documents dribbling out of the White House, that indicates he has strongly held and far-right views on major frontsabortion, religion, and executive power. There's ammunition for principled opposition to be mined here. But the key attribute Roberts lacks from the point of view of the legal liberals, at least on the record, is an overarching, burn-the-house-down judicial philosophy. As a result, proponents of judicial restraintan approach to the law that's become as fashionable among liberals as conservativesare eager to embrace him as one of their own. Leftish advocates of restraint celebrate justices who don't reach out beyond the facts of a case to decide more than they need to and who respect existing Supreme Court precedent. They wrinkle their noses at justices who overtly seek to impose a rightward agenda (Antonin Scalia) and are willing to jettison past decisions to do it (Clarence Thomas). Roberts has never declared himself one of the bad guys, Sunstein pointed out hopefully in a recent piece in the New Republic . Instead he has styled himself as deliberate, lawyerly, process-oriented. His opinions on the D. C. Circuit court of appeals avoid broad pronouncements, ... They do not try to reorient the law.
I call him a huckster. He's able to seduce money out of people to keep his operation going, but this latest call for assassination shows him for what he is. He's a far-right crank.
It's not something fundamental that's changing so much as the far-right agenda that has pushed too far, and people in the West ... are pushing back. In the short term, we'll switch back and forth in this state.
Ultraconservatives are so determined to swing the Supreme Court to the right that they pounded their own president's nominee into submission and now demand a nominee with unquestioned far-right credentials.
We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.
What we are seeing in the north of England is a reaction by local people to the infiltration of far-right groups like the BNP and the NF in their towns.
The Christian Coalition has definitely decreased in influence. But Robertson, as an individual, continues to inspire a lot of loyalty among far-right activists. There's no question that Robertson has significant influence.
In his new book, It Takes a Family, ... all politicians know that when you engage in any traditional values issue ... adjectives like intolerant, rigid, far-right, mean-spirited, extreme, hard-line and zealous will routinely be used to describe you.
This is the triumph of personality in politics. We tend to think that if a conservative is soft-spoken, thoughtful, and agreeable - as Roberts is - then it means he can't be far-right politically. Robert Bork played into the extremist' stereotype. He had the wild and wooly hair - along with outspoken conservative views - and seemed like someone you wouldn't want to hang out with. Roberts seems like the opposite.
The far-right wing backlash is the result of our successes. They're freaked out that students at other schools will take similar action.
It makes no sense to divert funds from public schools that are enrolling hurricane victims, just to make President Bush 's far-right political backers happy. This is bad policy.