— from Empire Burlesque by Chris Floyd who also lists more Roberts attributes: “Strip mining, mountain killing, womb controlling, child arresting, war profiteering.”
Floyd describes Roberts himself as “Judge Dread Roberts, corporate bagman, champion of mountain-top removal mining, recreational guzzler of Pepto-Bismol.” (Cracks me up.)
THAT BASTARD!
And to think I thought for a moment that he was cute! How dumb could I get.
[no offense to innocent toads]
Thanks Susan!
We have to laugh, as they say, or else …
Besides, it is ALL OF IT absurd on some level. Since you Canadians won’t invade, we are just stuck and screwed for like a long time.
Susan,
Just saw your story a few minutes ago.
Did you follow the secondary links in the Empire Burlesque story?
This one: Iraq War Pork Stakes?
If that report holds up to scrutiny – we have a major problem. It’s not only the nominee that is linked with big corporate business. Turns out that Mrs. Roberts has quite a track record in big business and venture capital circles.
The Congress and the Administration is already in the pockets of big business. This is dangerous encroachment on the Supreme Court!
Now what did you have to go and do that for? Don’t we have enough to worry about?
Seriously, Chris Floyd has this capacity … thanks for checking out his links. I will too.
especially since her husband JG has ruled for nuclear plant deregulation. Can you imagine deregulating the safety of nuclear energy?! It is MORE than too much!
I wanted to diary this last night, but I’m going on vacation today (headed out the door in less than an hour) and had too many things to do before departure.
I hope someone picks it up – such background needs to get out to a bigger audience!
Unlike judges like Scalia, Rehnquist, or Bork, Roberts doesn’t strike me as a judge who sinks his teeth into right wing ideology with gusto for its own sake. Clearly this guy has been the ultimate Washington insider attorney slash corporate whore. But once he’s got a lifetime SCOTUS appointment, there’s no more ladders to climb, no one to whore himself out to, really.
So what if he gets in, and then turns into another David Souter when he no longer has the leash of his right wing masters around his neck? One can hope…
I have that hope too. Due to his fairly young age, that the Supreme Court will change him into a decent human being who actually cares about the rest of humanity. But it is a slim hope.
for a street hooker, but not for a corporate whore. This guy’s “stellar career” has consisted of selling himself to the highest bidder. No reason to think that will stop just because he’s on a court of his peers.
But that doesn’t matter, does it? The “liberals” will let him sail through because he has no specific record against abortion, and that’s all that matters, right?
But how do you sell yourself to the highest bidder when you’ve got a lifetime SCOTUS appointment? Unlike someone climbing the ladder (which Roberts has been up to now) or a politician raising money for reelection battles, the only way I can see for a Supreme to do it is the literal, blatantly illegal way: taking secret bribes. And I tend to think that for the most part, even the least ethical SCJs would shy away from that path just because their self image is on a higher plane than that.
-Alan