Roberts Rules of Order
Sep 29th, 2005 at 4:53 pm by Susie
Billmon on the Roberts nomination:
By that standard, at least, Roberts would practically have to show up for work in a white robe and a hood to make things worse. I’m not expecting that — stealth coating or no stealth coating. But I’d put even lower odds on Roberts undergoing any kind of Souter-like metamorphosis, much less becoming the 21st century version of Earl Warren. The firebreathers may not have gotten exactly what they wanted (which is why Shrub’s next nomination is the political equivalent of trying to swallow a fish bone — no matter how careful he is, it’s still likely to get stuck in his throat.) But the ghost of Ronald Reagan can rest easy: the civil rights rollbacks of the 1980s are surely safe in Chief Justice Roberts’s hands, and might even be extended, albeit probably not as aggressively as he and his band of anti-soul brothers once hoped.
It’s a testament to how much they accomplished that his confirmation is being billed by the punditburo as a victory for the “sensible center.”
I will obey the rules, be polite, respect society, but let some bastard take my rights and I will put him in the cemetary.