Judge John Roberts Taking The Lead?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Supreme CourtSo says Redstate.org:
The President knows Judge Roberts and feels comfortable with him. Also, with several significant cases involving the government headed to the Supreme Court in the next year, one source very close to the White House suggests that Judge Roberts name is being given active consideration. In particular, I’ve been given the following points:
- Judge Roberts and the President know each other the President is “comfortable” with him.
- The judge sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and is therefore very familiar with a host of government related issues that will soon be heading toward the Supreme Court.
- Importantly for this White House, Judge Roberts is seen as jurist willing to extend the Executive Branch wide flexibility in both its conduct of general official business and the War on Terror.
- The Vice President seems favorable to Judge Roberts given Roberts’s propensity to give the Executive Branch some flexibility (Judge Roberts participated in the In re: Cheney decision, which struck a blow to the environmentalists seeking a list of participants in energy task force meetings).
- Judge Roberts is one of the few judges most likely to be very controversial to left wing groups, but be seen as a quality judge by both the public and the seven Democrats who signed the filibuster deal.
Interesting. He has the potential to be very controversial, but the seven Dems who signed the filibuster deal would be okay with him.
Sounds like some skilled political engineering to me.
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