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Politics : Politics of Supreme Court Nominations
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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (216)9/13/2005 8:23:04 AM
From: ChinuSFO  Read Replies (1) of 292
 
Another interesting aspect of the Roberts hearings besides Presidential powers and the right to detain without cause.

The stealth appointee
By Thomas Oliphant | September 13, 2005

....Roberts will have no trouble passing the litmus test. But his passing of it will mask the long record of his fealty to the true purpose of conservatism in civil rights for well over a generation -- the blocking of remedies to achieve broad desegregation and promote genuine integration and equal opportunity. His paper trail shows consistent fealty to the sideshows over affirmative action, 'quotas," and other manifestations of the effort to restrict civil rights gains as threats to white people.

In an interesting poll last week, the Pew Center found that only 18 percent of the public is paying very close attention to the Roberts ascendancy, as opposed to more than 70 percent who were very closely following Hurricane Katrina and its embarrassing aftermath......

..read the entire analysis at boston.com
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