I have written here too many times to cite that Judge Roberts’s record on civil rights, as revealed in the many memos that have been made public, is one he and the Republicans should be proud of. Most of the press, on the other hand, has served merely as a megaphone for the Democrats’ denunciation of Roberts as being “out of the mainstream” on civil rights, etc.
Now comes Stuart Taylor, writing in the National Journal, who argues that Roberts’s views were well within the legal mainstream, represented and still represent a clear majority of the public as revealed by all neutrally worded polls, and that as a reult the Roberts critics “have squandered much of their already-depleted credibility.”
Taylor, as I assume most of you know, is no right-wing flack. Indeed, he writes that he hopes the future Roberts Court will only “narrow Grutter and other pro-preference precedents but stop short of overruling them.” I, on the other hand, would like to see Grutter et. al. gutted. Still, this is a must-read article.
