Fear of Clowns: The Roberts nomination: Credit where due

Fear of Clowns

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Friday, September 16, 2005

The Roberts nomination: Credit where due

Although his lack of experience borders on alarming, particularly in that he's been nominated for Cheif Justice, I think Roberts is an acceptable choice for the Supreme Court.

Roberts easily comes off as more of a centrist than right-winger. And I think everybody can agree he's a sharp legal mind.

He's clearly not a Scalia, Thomas, or Rogers-Brown type. I think ther choice could have been much worse. Imagine a right winger like Scalia or a nitwit like Janice Rogers-Brown being Chief Justice. Shudder.

I believe Roberts will stand up for the Court as a co-equal branch of government, which is fortunately uncharacteristic of judges the righrt-wing likes; In my opinion wishing to dilute the power of the Judicial Branch is the most dangerous attribute of judges the right approves of.

So the Dems are right to let him through without a fight which should be saved in case Bush's next Supreme Court appointment is a right-winger.

// posted by Erik @ 9/16/2005 11:48:00 PM
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Comments:

I haven't been able to follow this nomination process at all, so it's kind of comforting to updated that this choice of judge is maybe not something else to feel alarmed about these days!