Political Jackass

• John Roberts has an exceptionally small amount of experience sitting on the bench. Roberts has only been a judge for two years. The dramatic inexperience of John Roberts is an asset as far as the Republicans are concerned, because Roberts has had little time in which to make real judicial decisions that can be examined by the public. However, the lack of judicial experience that John Roberts would bring to the Supreme Court places the American nation at an extreme risk of uninformed extremism.
• John Roberts is on the record as opposing the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. Radical anti-abortion organizations have lined up behind the John Roberts nomination because they know that Roberts will cast the deciding vote against reproductive rights and the right to privacy. Roberts wrote: “Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overruled.”
• John Roberts has intervened on behalf of Operation Rescue in a federal court case. Operation Rescue is an extremist anti-abortion group that has sent out troops of radical right wingers to attack and harass women across the country – and many of these women were doing nothing more than trying to get a pap smear.
• John Roberts has taken a firm stand against international standards and domestic American laws regarding human rights. Even in his short history as a judge, John Roberts had the chance to prevent war crimes – and decided not to. John Roberts proclaimed that prisoners of war do not need to be protected by the Geneva Conventions!
• John Roberts has consistently stood against the separation of church and state. Say hello to Justice Roberts, and America will also be saying hello to the replacement of American democracy with a new American theocracy.
• John Roberts has argued that public schools should have the power to force people to engage in religious worship.
• John Roberts has worked against civil rights. Part of his legal experience includes efforts to prevent the U.S. Congress from protecting the Voting Rights Act.
• John Roberts has a history of opposing the legal standing of the Endangered Species Act. If John Roberts gets on the bench, expect that the American Bald Eagle will once again have its neck on the industrial chopping block.
• John Roberts has written legal opinions that suggest that he promotes an extremist right wing judicial ideology about “takings” that could instantly make all environmental legislation in the United States null and void.
• John Roberts does not support the troops. Roberts has ruled from the bench that American soldiers captured and tortured by agents of the Iraqi government have no legal recourse to compensation and no right to justice.
• The nomination of John Roberts to the Court of Appeals was strongly opposed by watchdog organizations that are dedicated to the defense of liberty in America. At the time of John Roberts’s appeals court nomination, one such liberty defense organization wrote that John Roberts “has a record of hostility to the rights of women and minorities. He has also taken controversial positions in favor of weakening the separation of church and state and limiting the role of federal courts in protecting the environment.” and noted that “Mr. Roberts supported a hard-line, anti-civil rights policy that? would have ?resegregated? America?s public schools.”

Source: Irregular Times

Kind of scary, don’t you think? I’m not at all surprised at the caliber of Bush’s pick. He’s just another joke, albeit a sad one, in the Bush administration. I have a feeling some more of our rights are going to be going down the toilet.