Tuesday, August 30, 2005
OH NO! Roberts Is In Serious Trouble
I was afraid of this -- the great Roberts document dump has turned up a weakness, a fatal flaw -- something so devestating, so utterly awful, as to disqualify him from consideration as a member of the Supreme Court bench.
What is that fatal flaw, you ask? He is smarter than us, and he is not afraid to show it.
Turns out he also supported his boss.
The left is going to have to work a lot harder than this.
What is that fatal flaw, you ask? He is smarter than us, and he is not afraid to show it.
A cheerfully ruthless copy editor over the years, Judge Roberts has demanded verbal rigor from his colleagues and subordinates, refusing to tolerate the slightest grammatical slip, and boasting an exceptional vocabulary and command of literature himself.This article is amazing to me -- a lawyer is nothing if not a wordsmith. Words are, in fact, a lawyers product -- can there be law without words? The last thing I want is a lawyer with bad grammer, and unfortunately I have met a few.
Nowhere are Judge Roberts's tendencies as a grammarian more evident than in his memorandums from the Reagan era, when, as a lawyer in the counsel's office, he frequently peppered notes and documents with minor syntax corrections even when the basic legal arguments were sound.
Turns out he also supported his boss.
The meeting came as the National Archives released more documents from Roberts' time as a government lawyer in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. In one document, Roberts suggested that a conservative supporter of President Reagan "go soak his head" after he criticized the White House for avoiding a friend's fight with immigration officials.Boy is that a problem. What? Was Reagan gonna hire him because he disagreed and did not support his policies?
In other documents, Roberts pushed the Reagan administration to get its conservative policies enacted so future presidents could not readily overturn them. And he showed displeasure with the federal judiciary, saying the Justice Department needs to get legal solutions "less dependent on the fiat of unelected jurists."
The left is going to have to work a lot harder than this.
