JOHN ROBERTS FOR CHIEF JUSTICE!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 5, 2005

CFFJ PRAISES THE NOMINATION OF JOHN ROBERTS
TO CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT

(WASHINGTON, DC) – The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary today praised the President’s choice of D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John Roberts to be the 17th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Kay Daly, president of CFFJ, said the following:

“The decision to nominate Judge John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court is an excellent choice. The American Bar Association unanimously rated Judge Roberts well qualified for the Court and one of the determinations for that rating is judicial temperament. (http://www.abanet.org/scfedjud/)

“John Roberts, having clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist, has been likened to Chief Rehnquist often in his style of judging and will undoubtedly build upon the foundation of order, efficiency and comity so solidly built by the Chief Justice. Judge John Roberts has the keen intellect, calm impartiality, even temperament, sound legal judgment and highest integrity necessary in a Supreme Court justice.

“We remain hopeful that the din from the Left -- from making non-stop demands for nothing less that a co-nomination to the endless carping over documents -- will quiet down, if for no other reason, out of respect for the passing of Chief Justice Rehnquist. Given that whole forests’worth of paper have not satisfied these Leftists, it seems close to futile to hope that the process to fill the O’Connor seat will degenerate into yet another whinefest. But hope springs eternal.

“We congratulate the President for the care he took in making this decision and Judge Roberts for this extraordinary opportunity. This is one nominee who is not going to join the secret decoder ring club by emanating in some microscopic penumbra and he will follow in Rehnquist’s steps with distinction. We look forward to President Bush’s nomination for the seat vacated by Sandra Day O’Connor, hopeful that the President will continue to keep his promise made to the American people and continue to nominate orginalists to the Court.”

The Coalition for a Fair Judiciary is a 501(C)4 organization (http://www.fairjudiciary.com/) comprised of more than 100 grassroots organizations dedicated to supporting qualified, capable federal judicial nominees who are committed to fair and accurate interpretation of existing law. Judicial activism, characterized by rulings that create law rather than apply the law, has had a detrimental impact on American society and commerce. We seek to support federal judicial nominees who, in the words of Socrates, will “hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly and decide impartially.”
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