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noc
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 Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject: President Bush will pick John G. Roberts for SCOTUS |
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Bush Nominates Federal Judge Roberts
By DEB RIECHMANN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 19, 2005; 7:51 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071900138_pf.html
WASHINGTON -- President Bush chose federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday as his first nominee for the Supreme Court, selecting a rock solid conservative whose nomination could trigger a tumultuous battle over the direction of the nation's highest court, senior administration officials said.
Bush offered the position to Roberts in a telephone call at 12:35 p.m. after a luncheon with the visiting prime minister of Australia, John Howard. He was to announce it later with a flourish in a nationally broadcast speech to the nation.
Roberts has been on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since June 2003 after being picked for that seat by Bush.
Advocacy groups on the right say that Roberts, a 50-year-old native of Buffalo, N.Y., who attended Harvard Law School, is a bright judge with strong conservative credentials he burnished in the administrations of former Presidents Bush and Reagan. While he has been a federal judge for just a little more than two years, legal experts say that whatever experience he lacks on the bench is offset by his many years arguing cases before the Supreme Court.
Liberal groups, however, say Roberts has taken positions in cases involving free speech and religious liberty that endanger those rights. Abortion rights groups allege that Roberts is hostile to women's reproductive freedom and cite a brief he co-wrote in 1990 that suggested the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 high court decision that legalized abortion. |
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Curtis H.
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Curtis H.
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noc
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confirmed
Appellate court judge Roberts is Bush pick
President to officially announce court nominee Tuesday night
R. Strauss / AP
Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. in an undated photo provided by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8625492/
BREAKING NEWS
NBC, MSNBC and news services
Updated: 8:23 p.m. ET July 19, 2005
WASHINGTON - President Bush chose federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday as his first nominee for the Supreme Court, selecting a rock-solid conservative whose nomination could trigger a tumultuous battle over the direction of the nation’s highest court, senior administration officials said.
Bush offered the position to Roberts in a telephone call at 12:35 p.m. after a luncheon with the visting prime minister of Australia, John Howard. He was to announce it later with a flourish in a nationally broadcast speech to the nation, with Roberts by his side. |
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shawa
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| Quote: | | Liberal groups, however, say Roberts has taken positions in cases involving free speech and religious liberty that endanger those rights. Abortion rights groups allege that Roberts is hostile to women's reproductive freedom and cite a brief he co-wrote in 1990 that suggested the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 high court decision that legalized abortion. |
If LIBS think he's dangerous he sounds good to me!!!
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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I really wondered which way he'd go.
Storm your elected representatives with letters and emails, telephone calls and telegrams.
And storm heaven with prayers.
Please God, give us the Supreme Court Justice that we need. (and please, not the one that we probably justly deserve  )
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Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
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margie
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| shawa wrote: | | Quote: | | Liberal groups, however, say Roberts has taken positions in cases involving free speech and religious liberty that endanger those rights. Abortion rights groups allege that Roberts is hostile to women's reproductive freedom and cite a brief he co-wrote in 1990 that suggested the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 high court decision that legalized abortion. |
If LIBS think he's dangerous he sounds good to me!!! |
AMEN  he sounds good to me. I just heard someone on the TV say that instead of selecting a spanish- american (to make history) or a woman ( to placate some) he simply selected the best qualified. Conservative and a constructivist! |
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C-130 Son
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| I give this nomination a big thumbs up! |
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