Straw Grasping Continues to Escalate for Anti-Roberts Cadre

Roberts tied to Bush-Quayle campaign
Supreme Court nominee said he provided opposition research
Tuesday, August 30, 2005

By Michael McGough, Post-Gazette National Bureau

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. provided "opposition research" for the Bush-Quayle-election campaign in 1988, according to an application form that Roberts completed when he sought appointment as deputy solicitor general in the first Bush administration the next year.

The form was one of several Roberts-related documents from the first Bush administration released yesterday by the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, and the National Archives.

The collection also included materials related to former President George H.W. Bush's decision in 1992 to nominate Roberts to succeed newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. That nomination died in the Senate, but Roberts was nominated to the same appeals court by the current President Bush and was confirmed by the Senate two years ago.

A memo from the file of Lee Liberman, who as an associate White House counsel advised the administration on judicial nominations, describes Roberts as a "superstar non-Hispanic candidate" for the D.C. Circuit. The memo said Bush shouldn't feel obliged to appoint a Hispanic to the D.C. Circuit because "from a political perspective, although a nominee for the D.C. Circuit would get the attention of the national Hispanic organizations, nominees to the 5th and 11th circuits would get much more attention from the populations of the states in those circuits, most notably Texas and Florida."

This just in: Roberts Once Supported Bush/Quail Campaign. Ooh this ought to nail him for sure, Roberts once "stepped on a crack," Roberts once went swimming less than one hour after eating.

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