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Yay WaPo headline writers
August 16, 2005 ( politics )
And I'm not just sayin' that because I live with one. Today's headlines from the WaPo front page:
Roberts Not Likely to Face Significant Fight
Barring unexpected developments, Democrats say a contentious nomination battle would be futile.
Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy'
Roberts Backed [Funeral protest] Service for Fetuses
I think Roberts is a surprise candidate from the White House because he's generally an acceptable candidate. He's not a whacknut neocon. He has support from some groups on the left side of center. This, in itself, should be a big huge alarm.
My fear is that with his blatant denial of the 4th Amendement = Privacy guarantees link, and his anti-abortion-rights history coming into light, that he's the ideal neocon candidate, as he won't engender enough activism to enable a filibuster, but he will be anti-privacy, upholding such gems of the Bush Regime as the misnomered PATRIOT act, and probably anti-abortion. Which, considering some anti-abortion groups consider murdering doctors as completely within the realm of acceptable measures, I'm sure there are many more who refrain from such extremes who will be more than willing to find cases to push up to the SCOTUS once Roberts is sitting.
I miss representative democracy.
Posted by griffjon at August 16, 2005 10:04 AM
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