I tried. I really tried to give this guy a benefit of a doubt. I tried to listen to those who said the President gets his pick. Ok, he's conservative, but he's smart, he's a nice and has a nice family. So I was going to sit and listen to what he had to say. Until I read this.
The LA Times is reporting today that SCOTUS nominee John Roberts advised Jeb! Bush how to steal away the 2000 election in Florida.
Republican lawyers who worked on the recount said Wednesday that Roberts advised Gov. Jeb Bush on the role that the governor and the Florida Legislature might play in the recount battle. At the time, when GOP officials feared that Democrat Al Gore might win a recount battle in court, Republican state lawmakers were devising a plan to use their constitutional power to assign the state's electoral votes to George W. Bush -- a proposal criticized by Democrats.
Responding to questions Wednesday about Roberts' role in Florida, a spokesman for Gov. Bush's office said that Roberts had been recommended to the governor, although the spokesman gave no further specifics, and that the two had not known each other until the recount. Miami trial lawyer Dean Colson, who met Roberts when both were law clerks for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and who was best man at Roberts' wedding, is also close personally with Gov. Bush.
"Mr. Roberts, one of the preeminent constitutional attorneys in the country, came to Florida in 2000 at his own expense and met with Gov. Bush to share what he believed the governor's responsibilities were under federal law after a presidential election and a presidential election under dispute," said the spokesman, Jacob DiPietre. "Judge Roberts was one of several experts who came to Florida to share their ideas. The governor appreciated his willingness to serve and valued his counsel."
In other words, Jeb!, Roberts, Republican Legislators and others were looking for a way to pick the State's Electoral College electors even if Gore won the recount. Even if other methods of stealing the election didn't work. Roberts' role, I'll admit, was small, but it doesn't matter. He's just another Bush family crony who actively took part in the theft of the 2000 election. And now he'll be given the chance to decide what rights we have as voters?