Wednesday, July 20, 2005

John G. Roberts

What with all the hoo-haw of the past few weeks on who the President would appoint to the Supreme Court, my immediate off-the-cuff reaction is that Judge Roberts is an excellent choice.

Okay, so he's a conservative. That doesn't make him a bad person, and it's hardly reasonable to expect Bush to nominate anyone who's not a conservative.

Roberts' credentials appear to be as solid as anyone could hope for: his judicial career has been brief but he's appeared before the Supreme Court as an advocate almost 40 times and he appears to have earned the respect of the court's members.

If he's opposed by partisan hacks, who cares?

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