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July 20 Update: SCOTUSSA

Fellow comrades:
It's been a busy time for me as I have been working on my Ph.D. in Socialistic Science and Propaganda, requiring me to retreat from my daily publication of news updates, but fortunately, I was able to get back to my desk and write an update on the world's truth on the plusses of the People's Cube and Socialism and the evil of capitalism.

Today in the news, however, brings one of great distress. Evil Dictator G.W. Bush nominated J.G. Roberts to the SCOTUSSA. This is a most displeasing report as we all tried aggressively (and passively in a sense) to get one of our red comrades into the SCOTUSSA. However, since the capitalist pigs are stubborn and hard of hearing, it seems that we have only one course of action left: Revolutionize the Senate and defeat the evil right-winged Roberts from entering the Judicial Chair. We must take this course of action and put into action the five-year plan that we've been working on (of course, only the real Socialists know which five-year plan we will be putting into action).

Here is the story from NBC News:
Battle under way over Bush pick for top court
Roberts campaigns to nail GOP support, allay Democrats' fears
NBC, MSNBC and news services
Updated: 9:50 a.m. ET July 20, 2005

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts begins his confirmation campaign Wednesday to nail down Republican Senate support and overcome Democrats' fears that he would push the nation's highest court far to the right on abortion and other polarizing issues.

President Bush introduced the 50-year-old federal appeals court judge to the nation Tuesday night, calling him a man with “a good heart” and a jurist who will “strictly apply the Constitution in laws — not legislate from the bench.”

In brief remarks, Roberts said it “is both an honor and very humbling to be nominated to serve on the Supreme Court.” He said he has argued numerous cases before the high court during his career.

“I always got a lump in my throat whenever I walked up those marble steps to argue a case before the court, and I don't think it was just from the nerves,” Roberts said.

After breakfast with Bush at the White House, Roberts was to meet Wednesday with leaders in the Senate, which will decide whether he will replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and become the first new Supreme Court member in more than a decade.

No filibuster predictions
Reaction from Republican senators was overwhelmingly supportive.

Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee called for confirmation proceedings that “treat Judge Roberts with dignity and respect” and lead to a yes or no vote before the court's term begins Oct 3.

Democrats reacted more cautiously, but there were no instant predictions of a filibuster.

“The president has chosen someone with suitable legal credentials, but that is not the end of our inquiry,” Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the only woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold hearings on the nomination, said the new justice will be critical to the balance of the court, especially when it rules on cases involving congressional authority, a woman's right to privacy and environmental protections.

“I will keep my powder dry until the due diligence is completed,” Feinstein said.

Bush calls for swift confirmation
Bush repeated an earlier request of the Senate Judiciary Committee that his nominee be confirmed in time for the new justice to join the court when it reconvenes in October.

“They share my goals of a dignified confirmation process,” Bush said of the Senate panel. “I have full confidence that the Senate will rise to the occasion and act promptly on his nomination,” Bush said.

Bush offered the position to Roberts in a telephone call at 12:35 p.m. ET Tuesday after a luncheon with the visiting prime minister of Australia, John Howard. He announced his selection at about 9 p.m. in a nationally broadcast speech to the nation, with Roberts by his side.

Roberts has been on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since June 2003 after being picked for that seat by Bush.

Advocacy groups on the right say that Roberts, a 50-year-old native of Buffalo, N.Y., who attended Harvard Law School, is a bright judge with strong conservative credentials he burnished in the administrations of former Presidents Bush and Reagan.

While he has been a federal judge for just a little more than two years, legal experts say that whatever experience he lacks on the bench is offset by his many years arguing cases before the Supreme Court.

Liberal groups, however, say Roberts has taken positions in cases involving free speech and religious liberty that endanger those rights. Abortion rights groups allege that Roberts is hostile to women's reproductive freedom and cite a brief he co-wrote in 1990 that suggested the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 high court decision that legalized abortion.

“The court's conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion ... finds no support in the text, structure or history of the Constitution,” the brief said.

In his defense, Roberts told senators during his 2003 confirmation hearing that he would be guided by legal precedent. “Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land. ... There is nothing in my personal views that would prevent me from fully and faithfully applying that precedent.”

That's the news of the day. Now get that plan into action before Bush does anything else!

Screwing capitalists out of a job,
Vladimir Ivanov
Red Journalism Headquarters, Moscow, USSR

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