Roberts Donated Help to Gay Rights Case & other Headlines

Posted by Mary Mancini on August 5, 2005 under Uncategorized |

Roberts Donated Help to Gay Rights Case - “Roberts’ work on behalf of gay rights activists, whose cause is anathema to many conservatives, appears to illustrate his allegiance to the credo of the legal profession: to zealously represent the interests of the client, whoever it might be.” (LA Times) Read more…

Roberts’ Gay Bias Case Role Debated - “It ‘is a red herring meant to divide the right,’ said Sean Rushton, executive director of the Committee for Justice, which helps coordinate strategy on judicial nominations for conservative groups. Similarly, liberal activists said the revelation did not temper their concern that Roberts was less supportive of civil rights than they would like. (LA Times) Read more…

Roberts Admits Lobbying Omission in Sworn Documents - “Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts failed to include his lobbying of Bush administration officials on behalf of the cosmetics industry in 2001 in his Senate questionnaire released yesterday. The omission is notable because the Senate asked for a list of all of his lobbying, and his work for the Cosmetics, Toiletries and Fragrance Association resulted in the controversial suspension of stricter rules for labeling sunscreen products.” (Newsday) Read more…

Design for Confusion by Paul Krugman (NY Times) - “The important thing to remember is that like supply-side economics or global-warming skepticism, intelligent design doesn’t have to attract significant support from actual researchers to be effective. All it has to do is create confusion, to make it seem as if there really is a controversy about the validity of evolutionary theory. That, together with the political muscle of the religious right, may be enough to start a process that ends with banishing Darwin from the classroom.” Read More…

Vanity Fair floats allegations GOP chief Hastert took Turkish bribes - Vanity Fair’s September edition, now out in New York but yet to hit national newsstands, packs a punch with an article about Sibel Edmonds, the FBI translator who has been gagged by the Bush Administration from revealing information about conversations she translated surrounding a seemingly major corruption scandal involving Turkish nationals and U.S. lawmakers.” (Raw Story) Read more…