76% said they needed more information before they could decide whether his views were “mainstream.”
74% % felt it would be appropriate to ask Roberts about abortion at the hearings.”
Yet when Democrats said they would seek to demystify the record of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts by “demand[ing] that the Bush administration hand over internal legal memorandums written by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. while he was a government lawyer”, Republicans on Capitol Hill said fat chance.
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch went further:
" "Democrats know that if they are going to play that partisan game again, in something where the stakes are this large with a person of this quality and who they know who is qualified to be on the court, the American people are not going to put up with it," he said after meeting with Judge Roberts. "And the administration is not going to put up with it." "
Yeah, it’s pretty friggin' outrageous for Democrats to inquire about the record of a man who seeks a lifetime appointment on the Highest Court in the land. So friggin' outrageous that some Republicans believe “the demands may be early signs of a stealth campaign by Democrats to kill the Supreme Court nomination by demanding documents they know they won't get.”
“Some Republicans” have more faith in Democrats than I have. But every once in while the ultra right gets something correct, let’s hope this one of those rare times.
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