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Judge Roberts is a bright man that can't be denied. If he uses his intelligence independently, that will be a good thing.
However, there is an insidious potential underside to all of this too.
It's quite possible that he may have been groomed by the right wing for this position from the very beginning. It certainly seems he was ambitious enough from the get go.
First, he clerked for Chief Justice Renquist (Renquist wants a protege on the Court and he has him in Roberts).
Next the Reagan Administration brought him in as an Associate Counsel to the President. Quite a leap for a law clerk.
This led to him being hired on to a DC law firm where he could practice as an attorney for large corporate clients while accumulating a fortune in the process, all the time carefully steering clear of the broad social issues that Supreme Court Justices must decide upon.
George Bush, Sr. brought him back to serve in the Federal Government during his adminstration before the revolving door sent him back to the same DC firm.
Then less than two year's ago, he was given his first Judgeship position by George Bush, Jr. With less than two years of Judicial experience he is now on the verge of ascending to the Supreme Court. That is highly unusual to say the least.
Roberts obviously has a partisan agenda having eagerly served at the behest of Republican President's during his entire government career. Despite this, he has not weighed in much (personally or politically) on many of the important issues that the Supreme Court addresses.
So what gives me an inkling that this Catholic "family man" with the smiling face might have a plan to be more of a right-wing activist than he has tried to lead people to believe?
A part of it is his wife's background. She was Vice-President of a pro-life anti-abortion group. His two poster children are adopted.
Also, in 1991, while Roberts was Deputy Solicitor General, he "co-wrote" the administration?s brief in Rust v. Sullivan, defending the abortion "gag rule" barring doctors in clinics receiving federal funds from discussing abortion. True to the administration?s position, the brief disavowed Roe, stating "We continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled."
George Bush is an idiot, but he is also a zealot - look at the mess he has created in the Middle East. In appointing Roberts to the Supreme Court, I believe he is seeking nothing less than to roll back legalized abortion.
The "Roberts Project" has been a long time in coming, but it appears nonethless part of a longterm strategy for changing the social structure of this country.
If the religious right achieves this objective, expect social upheaval in this country unlike anything we have experienced before.
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