John G. Roberts, Jr.: External Links 2005

The following are External Links for 2005 related to the article on John G. Roberts, Jr..

Also see John G. Roberts, Jr.: External Links 2006.

Ongoing Coverage

• John G. Roberts, People for the American Way; accessed August 11, 2005.
• "Roberts at a Glance," Save the Court.org; accessed August 11, 2005.

Articles & Commentary 2005

• Tony Mauro, "D.C. Circuit Judge Gets on Supreme Court Short List," Legal Times, February 22, 2005.
• "Roberts May Lead a Conservative Shift on High Court" (Update1) and (Update 2), Bloomberg News, June 20, 2005.
• Emily Bazelon and David Newman, "The Supreme Court Shortlist. The views of the likely candidates," Slate, July 1, 2005.
• Charles Lane, John G. Roberts, Washington Post, July 2, 2005.
• Adam M. Guren, "2 Alums May Be Tapped For Court. Experts say Roberts ’76, Gonzales are on Bush’s Supreme Court short-list," Harvard Crimson, July 8, 2005.
• Charles Lane and Jerry Markon, "Similar Appeal; Different Styles. Two Judges Seen as Potential Supreme Court Nominees Share Conservatives' Approval," Washington Post, July 17, 2005.
• "Roberts Dossier: Key Documents," Washington Post, July 19, 2005.
• Fred Barnes, "The Safe Pick. Conservatives hoped for a demonstrably conservative nominee with a streak of daring. They didn't get one," The Weekly Standard, July 19, 2005.
• Joan Biskupic and Toni Locy, "Roberts found 'deep regard' for court arguing cases,"USA Today, July 19, 2005.
• Edwin Chen, "Aides Describe How President Arrived at His Choice," Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2005.
• Tom Curry, "Why Roberts looks likely to win. Solid conservative vetting, slim paper trail, Mr. Establishment demeanor," MSNBC, July 19, 2005.
• Thomas Ferraro, "US Democrats wary of Roberts high court nomination," Reuters, July 19, 2005.
• Gina Holland, "Roberts Has Solid Conservative Credentials," Associated Press, July 19, 2005.
• Jeff Johnson, "Conservatives Quick to Support Supreme Court Nominee," Cybercast News Service, July 19, 2005.
• William Kristol, "Bush Rises to the Occasion. The Roberts pick is courageous and important," The Weekly Standard, July 19, 2005.
• David Stout and Elisabeth Bumiller, "President's Choice of Roberts Ends a Day of Speculation," New York Times, July 19, 2005.
• Tim Tagaris, "SCOTUS: Ethically Challenged John Roberts (Another Partisan Hack)," Swing State Project, July 19, 2005. See "U.S. v. Smithfield Foods".
• Transcript: "President Bush and Judge Roberts," New York Times, July 19, 2005: President George W. Bush's "announcement that he was nominating Judge John G. Roberts to the Supreme Court and Judge Roberts's comments, as recorded by The New York Times."
• "John Roberts on the Issues," Associated Press, July 19, 2005.
• Press Release: "FRC Welcomes President Bush's Supreme Court Nomination," PRNewswire, July 19, 2005.
• Jody Brown and Mary Rettig, "Roberts a 'Supreme' Choice for High Court, Say Evangelicals and Conservatives," Agape Press, July 20, 2005.
• Donna Cassata, "Colleagues Call High Court Nominee Smart," Associated Press, July 20, 2005.
• Michael C. Dorf, "He’s No Souter. Many liberals are heartened by the possibility of Justice Roberts. They shouldn’t be," The American Prospect, July 20, 2005.
• Chris Floyd, "Judge Dread. John Roberts and Enemy Combatants", Counterpunch, July 20, 2005.
• Ellis Henican, "Pick is Bush's Mr. Right," Newsday, July 20, 2005.
• Jesse J. Holland, "Senate Moving Fast to Fill High Court Seat," Associated Press, July 20, 2005.
• Kristin Jensen and Richard Keil, "Supreme Court Pick Shifts Attention From Rove, Agent Disclosure," Bloomberg News, July 20, 2005. Re Karl Rove: Outing Valerie Plame.
• Adam Nagourney, "Bush's Strategy for Court: Disarm the Opposition," New York Times, July 20, 2005: "'The president is a man of his word,' said Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. 'He promised to nominate someone along the lines of a Scalia or a Thomas, and that is exactly what he has done."
• John Nichols, "Another Activist Judge," The Nation, July 20, 2005.
• Todd S. Purdum, "In Pursuit of Conservative Stamp, President Nominates Roberts," New York Times, July 20, 2005.
• Deb Reichman, "Battle Over Nominee May Center on Abortion," Associated Press, July 20, 2005.
• Bruck Shapiro, "The Stakes in Roberts's Nomination," The Nation, July 20, 2005.
• Adele M. Stan, "Meet John Roberts. A first-class lawyer with a sense of humor. Too bad he’s a threat to women’s rights -- and the Constitution," The American Prospect, July 20, 2005.
• Pete Yost, "Roberts Has Solid Conservative Credentials," Associated Press, July 20, 2005.
• "Fight -- From the Right: Coulter Says Bush Pick Wrong," Drudge Report, July 20, 2005.
• "Bush Picks Roberts for Supreme Court," Fox News, July 20, 2005. See "Stories" box for more related news links.
• "Elsewhere on the Information Superhighway," Supreme Court Nomination Blog, July 20, 2005. Numerous links to reports and profiles.
• Joan Biskupic, Toni Locy and Richard Willing, "Next question on nominee: What does he really think? It's hard to tell if views he expressed as a litigator or as a circuit judge reflect his own, or if he was just bound by precedents and clients' interests," USA Today, July 21, 2005.
• David Brooks, Op-Ed: "A Competent Conservative," New York Times, July 21, 2005.
• Ann Coulter, "Souter in Roberts' Clothing," AnnCoulter.com, July 20, 2005; also posted at TownHall.com, July 21, 2005.
• Gary Fineout and Mary Ellen Klas, "Roberts Gave GOP Advice in 2000 Recount," Miami Herald, July 21, 2005; posted on Common Dreams website.
• Abby Goodnough, "Nominee Gave Quiet Advice on Recount," New York Times, July 21, 2005.
• Hugh Hewitt, "The Presidents' Man. Why John Roberts' service in the White House Counsel's office matters," The Weekly Standard, July 21, 2005.
• Carrie Johnson and Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, "Previous Work, Stock Ownership Could Lead to Recusals for Roberts," Washington Post, July 21, 2005.
• Howard Kurz, "Spun Silly," Washington Post, July 21, 2005.
• Stephen Labaton and Jonathan D. Glater, "As a Lawyer, Court Nominee Was Considered a Skillful Advocate for Corporate Clients," New York Times, July 21, 2005.
• Charles Lane, "Short Record as Judge Is Under a Microscope," Washington Post, July 21, 2005.
• Charles Lane, "Federalist Affiliation Misstated. Roberts Does Not Belong to Group," Washington Post, July 21, 2005. Re Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. Note that many of Roberts's legal associates are members. See Charles Lane's July 25th article below for more.
• Adam Nagourney and Carl Hulse, "Democrats and Allies Lament Lack of Record," New York Times, July 21, 2005.
• Todd S. Purdum, Jodi Wolgoren, and Pam Belluck, "Court Nominee's Life Is Rooted in Faith and Respect for Law," New York Times, July 21, 2005.
• Jeffrey Rosen, Op-Ed: "In Search of John Roberts," New York Times, July 21, 2005.
• R. Jeffrey Smith and Jo Becker, "'90 Brief Stirs Early Debate. Document Says Roe v. Wade Was Wrongly Decided in 1973," Washington Post, July 21, 2005.
• Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Filibuster on Supreme Court Nominee Appears Unlikely," New York Times, July 21, 2005.
• Robin Toner, "Cold Paper Trail Leads Some to Scrutinize Nominee's Past Words on Abortion," New York Times, July 21, 2005.
• Rebecca Traister, "'We've got to Bork Roberts!' Protesters sweat it out in the sweltering Manhattan heat to take their first stand against Bush's Supreme Court nominee," Salon, July 21, 2005.
• Adam Liptak, "In His Opinions, Nominee Favors Judicial Caution," New York Times, July 22, 2005.
• Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "Making His Rounds, Nominee Is Pressed to Become More Forthcoming This Time," New York Times, July 22, 2005.
• David Stout, "Bush Nominee Continues Effort to Win Over Senators," New York Times, July 22, 2005.
• Matthew Rothschild, "John Roberts and the Smirking Man," The Progressive, July 23, 2005.
• Frank Rich, Op-Ed: "Eight Days in July," New York Times, July 24, 2005.
• Robyn E. Blumner, "Roberts' rules put U.S. at risk," St. Petersburg Times, July 24, 2005.
• Rick Klein, "Clash likely over Roberts documents. White House says it won't release memos" and "Opposition to Roberts slow to muster. Nominee's record isn't generating storm of liberals," Boston Globe, July 25, 2005.
• Douglass K. Daniel, "White House Won't Show All Roberts Papers," Associated Press, July 25, 2005.
• Charles Lane, "Roberts Listed in Federalist Society '97-98 Directory. Court Nominee Said He Has No Memory of Membership," Washington Post, July 25, 2005.
• Douglass K. Daniel, "Roberts Declines to Explain Group Listing," Associated Press, July 25, 2005; posted on Guardian/UK website.
• Peter Baker, "Unraveling the Twists and Turns of the Path to a Nominee," Washington Post, July 25, 2005.
• Jennifer Loven, "Roberts Vote Fraught With 2008 Politics," Associated Press; posted on FindLaw website.
• Judd Legum, Faiz Shakir, Nico Pitney, Mipe Okunseinde and Christy Harvey, "Revealing Roberts," The Progress Report, July 25, 2005.
• Peter Baker and Charles Babington, "White House to Release Early Roberts Papers," Washington Post, July 26, 2005.
• David Espo, "Democrats scrutinize Supreme Court nominee's papers," Associated Press, July 26, 2005; posted on FindLaw website.
• Gina Holland, "Documents show Roberts aided O'Connor's confirmation to high court," Associated Press, July 26, 2005; posted on FindLaw website.
• "Tuesday WH Briefing: John Roberts and Iran-Contra," Editor & Publisher, July 26, 2005.
• Emily Bazelon, "Thank You, Mr. President. Last week, John Roberts wrote Bush a blank check," Slate, July 26, 2005.
• Matt Hutaff, "Supreme Distraction. Will President Bush's controversial Supreme Court nomination mask the troubles his administration currently faces? Not bloody likely," The Simon, July 26, 2005.
• R. Jeffrey Smith, Jo Becker and Amy Goldstein, "Documents Show Roberts Influence In Reagan Era," Washington Post, July 27, 2005: Documents "from Roberts' 1981-1982 tenure as a special assistant to Attorney General William French Smith ... [show that] Roberts presented a defense of bills in Congress that would have stripped the Supreme Court of jurisdiction over abortion, busing and school prayer cases; he argued for a narrow interpretation of Title IX, the landmark law that bars sex discrimination in intercollegiate athletic programs; and he even counseled his boss on how to tell the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow that the administration was cutting off federal funding for the Atlanta center that bears his name."
• Dan Eggen, "Roberts's Right to Vote Against Roe Is Defended. Gonzales Cites High Court's Special Role," Washington Post, July 27, 2005.
• Charles Babington and Peter Baker, "White House To Withhold Nominee's Tax Returns. Document Release Excludes First Bush Administration," Washington Post, July 27, 2005.
• Walter Dellinger, "Fair Questions For Roberts," Washington Post, July 27, 2005.
• Mark Caputo, "Supreme Court nominee John Roberts had larger 2000 recount role than previously reported," Miami Herald, July 27, 2005; posted on The Smirking Chimp website.
• Hope Yen, "Roberts pushed for limited court role on social issues, documents show," Associated Press, July 27, 2005; posted on FindLaw website.
• David Espo, "Kennedy Questions Roberts on Civil Rights," Associated Press (Guardian/UK), July 28, 2005.
• Charles Babington, "Access to Records May Be a Sticking Point. Democrats Push for Prompt Review," Washington Post, July 28, 2005.
• David E. Rosenbaum, "An Advocate for the Right," New York Times, July 28, 2005.
• Michael A. Fletcher, "Judge's Reagan-Era Work Criticized. Papers Show Roberts's Conservatism, Liberal Activists Say," Washington Post, July 29, 2005.
• Richard L. Hasen, "Roberts' iffy support for voting rights," Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2005.
• Mike Allen and R. Jeffrey Smith, "Judges Should Have 'Limited' Role, Roberts Says, Statement to Panel Cites Need for Restraint on Bench; Prior Documents Question 'Right to Privacy'," Washington Post, August 3, 2005.
• Richard A. Serrano, "Roberts Donated Help to Gay Rights Case. In 1996, activists won a landmark anti-bias ruling with the aid of the high court nominee," Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2005.
• Jo Baker, "Democrats to Compare Roberts's Views Now, Then," Washington Post, August 4, 2005.
• "Nominee Discloses Questionnaire Error," New York Times, August 4, 2005: "Acknowledging an omission in his response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, Judge John G. Roberts Jr. told the committee on Wednesday that while working as a lobbyist in 2001 he represented the cosmetics industry in an effort to fend off a regulatory change affecting sunscreen. ... [Roberts] wrote to the committee chairman, Senator Arlen Specter, saying he left the information out of his original response, filed Tuesday, because it did not occur to him that he was doing lobbying work in talking with government lawyers on behalf of the Cosmetics, Toiletries and Fragrances Association, an industry trade group."
• Evan Thomas and Daniel Klaidman, "The Nominee: Roberts at the Revolution. As interest groups sift his record in the Reagan White House, colleagues recall the mood at the dawn of a conservative era," Newsweek, August 8, 2005 (issue).
• David G. Savage and Maura Reynolds, "Bush Order Lets Him Control Roberts' Memos. A 2001 decree gives him the power to block the release of papers from presidential libraries, among them those of the high court nominee," Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2005.
• John W. Dean, "Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter Presses Judge John Roberts on His Commerce Clause Views: Will The 'Ginsburg Rule' Apply?" FindLaw's Writ, August 12, 2005.
• John Heilprin, "Critics Decry Roberts' Environment Record," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 14, 2005.
• Henry Weinstein, "Debating the Power of the Presidency. Some say John Roberts' biggest impact on the high court could come in cases on wartime executive authority -- not a right to abortion," Los Angeles Times, August 14, 2005.
• Margaret Talev, "John Roberts' Chaperone," McClatchey Newspapers (Capitol Hill Blue), August 15, 2005.
• Amy Goldstein and Jo Baker, "Memo Cited 'Abortion Tragedy'. Roberts Backed Service for Fetuses," Washington Post, August 15, 2005.
• David Espo, "Roberts Memo Shows School Prayer Sympathy," Associated Press (Washington Post), August 15, 2005.
• Joan Biskupic and Tony Locy, "Roberts scoffed at equal-pay theory," USA Today, August 15, 2005: "As an assistant White House counsel in 1984, John Roberts scoffed at the notion that men and women should earn equal pay in jobs of comparable importance, and he belittled three female Republican members of Congress who promoted that idea to the Reagan administration."
• Mary Deibel, "Roberts Opposed Clemency for Abotion Clinic Bombers," Capitol Hill Blue, August 16, 2005.
• Jim VandeHei, "Judge Heard Terrorism Case As He Interviewed for Seat," Washington Post, August 17, 2005: "Judge John G. Roberts Jr. was interviewing for a possible Supreme Court nomination with top Bush administration officials at the same time he was presiding over a terrorism case of significant importance to President Bush. ... Roberts recently released details of the months-long interviewing process showing that he met with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and other administration officials about the Supreme Court job while sitting on the three-judge panel that eventually allowed Bush to resume the use of military officers to conduct trials of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The 'military commissions' are central to Bush's anti-terrorism strategy."
• Mary Deibel, "Roberts Opposed Gender Equity," Capitol Hill Blue, August 17, 2005.
• David Espo, "Leahy Lambastes Roberts' 'Radical' Stands," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 17, 2005: "Sen. Patrick Leahy says Supreme Court nominee John Roberts holds 'radical' views and has been an 'eager, aggressive advocate' for policies of the far right."
• "Reagan Files Paint Court Nominee as a Watchdog," Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2005: "As a White House lawyer in the Reagan administration, John G. Roberts Jr. did not spend all of his time analyzing the great legal issues of the day. Instead, judging from the thousands of pages of his files that were released Thursday, the Supreme Court nominee spent much of his time acting as a gatekeeper and editor for the president."
• Hope Yen, "Roberts Scoffed at Promotion for O'Connor," Associated Press (Yahoo! News), August 19, 2005.
• Mary Deibel, "What is the White House Hiding About John Roberts?" Capitol Hill Blue, August 19, 2005.
• Michael Giltz, "Ted Kennedy Comes Out Swinging On Roberts," AMERICAblog, August 19, 2005.
• Rick Klein, "Pressure mounts for Roberts papers. Liberals want data from nominee's most recent service," Boston Globe, August 20, 2005.
• Dan Noyes, The Moneyed Scales of Justice?, Muckraker, September 13, 2005
• Bill Stein, "John Roberts is 'The Manchurian Justice'," Reason Gone Mad, September 14, 2005.
• Tom Grieve, War Room: "Howard Dean on John Roberts," Salon, September 15, 2005. (Subscription or preview required.)
• Thomas Ferraro and Richard Cowan, "Roberts ends testimony to be U.S. chief justice," Reuters, September 15, 2005.