Hey, didn’t the big bugaboo use to be illegal nannies? Now it may be illegal children!
NY TIMES INVESTIGATES ADOPTION RECORDS OF SUPREME COURT NOMINEE’S CHILDREN
**Exclusive** (Drudgereport)
The NEW YORK TIMES is looking into the adoption records of the children of Supreme Court Nominee John G. Roberts, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The TIMES has investigative reporter Glen Justice hot on the case to investigate the status of adoption records of Judge Roberts’ two young children, Josie age 5 and Jack age 4, a top source reveals.
Judge Roberts and his wife Jane adopted the children when they each were infants.
Both children were adopted from Latin America. MORE BELOW:
A TIMES insider claims the look into the adoption papers are part of the paper’s “standard background check.”
Roberts’ young son Jack delighted millions of Americans during his father’s Supreme Court nomination announcement ceremony when he wouldn’t stop dancing while the President and his father spoke to a national television audience.
Previously the WASHINGTON POST Style section had published a story criticizing the outfits Mrs. Roberts had them wear at the announcement ceremony.
One top Washington official with knowledge of the NEW YORK TIMES action declared: “Trying to pry into the lives of the Roberts’ family like this is despicable. Children’s lives should be off limits. The TIMES is putting politics over fundamental decency.”
One top Republican official when told of the situation was incredulous. “This can’t possibly be true?”
Developing…
Interesting that Drudge is carrying this…I wonder if he got the green light to torpedo the nomination due to the righties’ fear of another Souter? Things that make me go hmmmm.
The timing is interesting.
Why would they throw him overboard?
Too many skeletons coming out. Seriously! Wait for the nanny story to appear. The WH is more than run by the right wing fascists and they will not stand for any nimonee that will not smash gay rights or overturn Roe V. Wade. If the wingers squash this nominee it will only be more proof to whom is running the country and what the real agenda is. God save us all.
Sounds to me like this is more likely an attempt by the hard right to use Drudge (an enabler of theirs if there ever was one) to slime the NYT as being beholden to radical liberal activists. The right will try to frame this as “Look at the depths those liberals are stooping to — Judge and Mrs. Roberts adopted these children as a demonstration of their pro-life beliefs, and the Times wants to destroy them for it!”
Just you wait, that’s where this is probably headed. The story will morph into one about the irresponsible liberal media and will provide yet another distraction from a legitimate examination of Roberts’ views and paper trail.
Agreed. This isn’t an attempt to torpedo Roberts. Roberts is everything the fascists have wanted for the past 50 years. This is an attempt to torpedo criticism of Roberts, by linking it into dastardly investigations into the lives of his cute little children that he oh-so-heroically saved from poverty…
Bad NYT searching for facts about things, so slimy! Here we have these wonderful people adopting these less fortunate children (and if they put me in short pants I would dance too) and the NYT is trying to make something nasty and evil out their parenthood and love of their children and their selfless sacrifice!
I’m thinking he was nominated to take the heat off Rove, with the idea that he might not be acceptable to the rabid right wingers, or that they could just keep everyone talking about him to distract everyone. It’s working, isn’t it?
Yes, a Trojan horse in some ways, put there to distract everyone for the summer.
Gay Rights Pro Bono.
If he’s been shot in the back, that’s why.
I agree, no matter how right wing he is the fact that he ever, under any circumstances, aided a gay rights issue is a huge problem for some of the hard right. And, I hate to say it, but as quickly as rumors can grow and as paranoid and homophobic as some of the right are, a guy who married late, adopted children, did a pro bono case for gay rights….I can see the loonier of the right just having screaming fits about this one.