I think this is exactly what we need to lead on in getting the Democrats to oppose the Roberts nomination.
John Roberts's Racial Hang Up
Color-Coded Justice
By JOSHUA FRANK
Published in CounterPunch
First Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts Jr., lied about his membership with the far right-wing Federalist Society, and now file cabinets full of documents are being released which expose Roberts' penchant for justice as color-coded. He says he won't be an activist judge. But he's lying again. Right-wing activism is all Roberts knows.
On Thursday, July 28, Senator Edward Kennedy alleged that Roberts has a "rather cramped view of the Voting Rights Act." What an understatement.
In a series of documents which were recently disclosed by the Bush administration, Roberts noted it was his opinion that extending the 1965 Act, which was under consideration while Roberts worked for the Reagan Administration, would "not simply extend the existing and effective Voting Rights Act, but would dramatically change it ... It's not broken so there's no need to fix it."
In another document from the same period, Roberts wrote that specific legislation designed to overturn a separate ruling by the Supreme Court "radically expand the civil rights laws to areas never before considered covered." Consequently, Roberts urged the Court to rule against it.
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