The Bride Stripped Bare
Jul 27th, 2005 at 12:05 am by Susie
Here’s the consensus on the newly-released White House documents related to the Roberts nomination: He’s a freakin’ hardcore conservative!
Imagine. How did he manage to get a job in the Reagan administration?
Much of Roberts’s time at the Justice Department was taken up by the debate over GOP-sponsored bills in Congress that would have stripped the Supreme Court of its jurisdiction over abortion, busing and school prayer cases. He wrote repeatedly in opposition to the view, advanced by then-Assistant Attorney General Theodore B. Olson, that the bills were unconstitutional. He scrawled “NO!” in the margins of an April 12, 1982, note Olson sent to Smith. In the memo, Olson observed that opposing the bills would “be perceived as a courageous and highly principled position, especially in the press.”
Roberts drew a bracket around the paragraph, underlined the words “especially in the press,” and wrote in the margin: “Real courage would be to read the Constitution as it should be read and not kowtow to the Tribes, Lewises and Brinks!”
Oooo, nice Marcel Duchamp reference!
i don’t get it.
It’s a famous painting by Marcel Duchamp, “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors.” I was referring to the uncovering of some small bits of Roberts’ record.