Judging Roberts
Newsweek, August, 2005 by Evan Thomas and Stuart Taylor Jr.
True believers on the left and the right, hoping to rouse their armies for a showdown over John Roberts, immediately trumpeted two "facts" about President George W. Bush's nominee to the United States Supreme Court. Liberal bloggers floated conspiracy theories about the behind-the-scenes role he played on Bush's legal team in the epic court fight after the 2000 election, a contribution that supposedly earned the president's undying gratitude. Right-wingers smugly assumed Roberts's membership in the Federalist Society, an organization that has taken on an almost cultish mystique as both incubator and old boys' network for conservative jurists and lawyers in Washington.
Both intriguing items about Roberts, widely reported in the mainstream media, served as fodder for the...
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