Herald.com: "Roberts had larger 2000 recount role than reported"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Posted on Wed, Jul. 27, 2005

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12230971.htm

The role of U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts in the 2000 election aftermath in Florida was larger than has been reported. Roberts helped prepare the Supreme Court case.

TALLAHASSEE - U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts played a broader behind-the-scenes role for the Republican camp in the aftermath of the 2000 election than previously reported -- as legal consultant, lawsuit editor and prep coach for arguments before the nation's highest court, according to the man who drafted him for the job. Ted Cruz, a domestic policy advisor for President Bush and who is now Texas' solicitor general, said Roberts was one of the first names he thought of while he and another attorney drafted the Republican legal dream team of litigation ''lions'' and ''800-pound gorillas,'' which ultimately consisted of 400 attorneys in Florida.

Until now, Gov. Jeb Bush and others involved in the election dispute could recall almost nothing of Roberts' role, except for a half-hour meeting the governor had with Roberts. Cruz said Roberts was in Tallahassee helping the Bush camp for ''a week to 10 days,'' and that his help was important, though Cruz said it is difficult to remember specifics five years after the sleep-depriving frenetic pace of the 2000 recount. But one thing was certain, Cruz told The Herald: ``There was no one better for the job.''

''He's one of the best brief writers in the country. Just like a good journalist or a novelist, he can write with clarity, concisely and can paint a picture with words,'' said Cruz. Roberts, a constitutional-law expert in a top Washington law firm at the time, is now a federal appeals court judge in D.C. Roberts was a no-brainer for the recount effort: His win-loss record at the U.S. Supreme Court was one of the most impressive. And, like Cruz, he was a member of a tight-knit circle of former clerks for the court's chief justice, William Rehnquist -- a group jokingly referred to as ``the cabal.''

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12230971.htm

[TroglodyteScholar]

1. Yea, I suspected this was a quid pro quo...

Do they know any other way?

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. So do we really want a Supreme Court Justice

who obviously does not believe in counting every vote? I don't.

[ClintonTyree]

3. Yep, straight out of central casting for..............

a bush lackey. A theo-con numbskull who'll do anything to protect this festering piece of shit some call "president".
WHY are these people so loyal and protective of this mumbling, moron? Ot is it PNAC that has their allegiance and georgie just happens to be the figurehead for that cabal at the moment? :shrug:

[nyhuskyfan]

4. It looks like that's twice he's been dishonest...

He was dishonest about being a part of the Federalist Society and dishonest about his role in the recount.

It's funny how easily these people's memories fog up. You would expect that it order to be a successful lawyer or judge, you would need an exceptional memory to recall precedents. Yet Roberts seems to have an awful lot of black holes in his memory banks that are all too convenient.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. but it won't be enough to keep him off the bench.. the GOP are GLAD

about what he has done.