August 28, 2005
Legal Fiction on Judge Roberts and Race ::
legal — tagged civil rights, conlaw, judicial appointments, legal, politics and SCOTUS
3:36 pm
[This is just one of a few posts I’ll be making as I try to catch up in the online world after taking a break for a week or so.]
Legal Fiction has a great series of posts dealing with is reservations about John Roberts’ race record here, here, here, and here. Although Roberts was arguing many of the more controversial positions while working for the Reagan and Bush Administrations, the language he used suggests he relished advocating the racially insensitive, sometimes borderline racist, positions of those administrations.
I still don’t think that this means that Judge Roberts should be dismissed out of hand. But I think the Senate has a responsibility to ask how Roberts’ views on these topics have evolved over the years.
