[Mb-civic] Campaign for the Supreme Court - Second Day Review - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>The nomination to replace Sandra Day O'Connor
Posted at 03:38 AM ET, 07/21/2005
Morning Papers

Good Morning. The second day themes in the papers this morning are that 
Roberts is without a discernable ideology which, in turn, suggests that 
he'll encounter little discernable oppositon from Democrats on the Hill. 
If his wife were the nominee, on the other hand, that would be another 
matter.

Peter Baker and Charles Babington in The Washington Post 
<http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002228.html>report 
that Democrats have resigned themselves to an easy confirmation for 
Judge Roberts, despite opposition from some liberal organizations. The 
key indicator is the mood of the Gang of 14 which, at this point, see no 
"extraordinary circumstances" in this nomination.

The Post's Charles Lane 
<http://http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002322.html>looks 
at Roberts short stint as a judge and finds insufficient evidence on 
which to base any broad conclusions about the record. In the view of 
some experts, he looks to be another Rehnquist, for whom he clerked, 
with a deferential view of of executive power but also a disinterest in 
development of a distinct judicial philosophy.

The New York Times, in a profile 
<http://http://nytimes.com/2005/07/21/politics/21nominee.html?hp&ex=1122004800&en=3e6d2bbcdacc8242&ei=5094&partner=homepage> 
by Todd Purdum, Jody Wilgoren and Pam Belluck, similarly find that "from 
his childhood as the son of a plant manager for Bethlehem Steel and a 
standout student through his career as a judge and lawyer for the 
government and private corporations, friends, colleagues and teachers 
say Judge Roberts has taken life one step - and one case - at a time."

"If President Bush intended to satisfy his conservative base without 
provoking a Democratic filibuster," says a Miami Herald editorial, "he 
probably could not have made a better choice than Roberts."

http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/campaignforthecourt/

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