What qualifies John Roberts Jr. for the Supreme Court?

[RC]

Roberts, John G. Jr.

Born 1955 in Buffalo, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit
Nominated by George W. Bush on January 7, 2003, to a seat vacated by James L. Buckley; Confirmed by the Senate on May 8, 2003, and received commission on June 2, 2003.

Education:
Harvard College, A.B., 1976

Harvard Law School, J.D., 1979

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Henry Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1979-1980
Law clerk, Associate Justice William Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States, 1980-1981
Special assistant to the attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1981-1982
Associate counsel to the president, White House Counsel's Office, 1982-1986
Private practice, Washington, DC, 1986-1989, 1993-2003
Principal deputy solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1989-1993

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Male

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[maddezmom]

1. in * world this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[Ezlivin]

2. Bush just likes the initials "JR"

It's a Texas thang, ya'll.

[Richard Steele]

3. Be fair; he HAS been a judge for 2 whole years now....

[Fiona]

4. Many justices were never judges at all....

there's no question that this guy is qualified. In fact, he's more qualified than many nominees in the past.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

21. Argued something like 39 cases before the Supreme Court

Won something like 25.

Let's not make fools of ourselves, people. We simply can't argue that he's not qualified -- there are plenty of other reasons to oppose him. Competence ain't one of them.

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[Dr.Phool]

9. Who the hell is Durgan?

Usually the first give-away.

[Vickers]

10. Huh? What the fuck are you talking about? Who is Durgan?

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[Dr.Phool]

13. Can you figure out that it's D-U-R-B-I-N?

[Vickers]

14. Teddy? Are you talking about Kaczynski? What kind of bullshit

are you smoking, pal, he's a comeplete fuckup!

[Dr.Phool]

15. Yeah, Teddy Kasczynski. Next Secretary of Defense!

Why have a wuss like Rummy, when you can have a real mad bomber.

[Vickers]

17. Holy shit, I was just joking, but it *does* make some kinda sense in

Bizarro Bushworld.

[Dr.Phool]

18. Me too, but it does make sense.

[Vickers]

20. This thread has been fun...we've smoked out two infilTRAITORS!

[LiviaOlivia]

16. Somebody order pizza?

Clean up on aisle 5 and 12

[FrankLee]

6. Sexual harrassment?

When do the women start coming forward to allege sexual harrassment on this guy?

But you know, he looks a little gay to me. Maybe that's why Bush picked him...

[samsingh]

7. nothing really.

[Dr.Phool]

8. Since when did * start appointing qualified people?

[David Zephyr]

11. His white penis. That's the most important criteria to be on the SCOTUS

Republican Creed: There must be a penis and is should be white. The rest is well just secondary.

[queeg]

19. Clean, Well Combed hair--- n/t

[bonzotex]

22. Dr James "Spongedob stickypants" Dobson loves him.

Just in case you wondered why Roberts is a bad bad choice....