ROBERTS DEFENDED MASS MURDERER

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You probably think I'm using a sensationalist title to attract attention. Certainly Judge Roberts couldn't have engaged in such a heinous thing. Why, conservative Christians might have to admit he isn't a "strict constitutional conservative" after all. Then again, his pro-Roe vs. Wade comments didn't do it. His defense of a major sodomite-rights case didn't even affect very many, so maybe Christians are more brain-dead than I thought.

If this doesn't cause Christians to admit that Roberts is unworthy of support, I suppose the only thing that would is if it was found out that he was Michael Jackson's "business partner" in Neverland. Then again, maybe THAT wouldn't be enough.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050806/ap_on_go_su_co/roberts_pro_bono

Roberts Devoted Free Time to Liberal Cases

By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer Sat Aug 6, 8:31 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Despite his view that death penalty appeals are clogging the courts, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts provided free legal help to an inmate languishing on Florida's death row for two decades.

25 hours of legal assistance that Roberts reported to the Senate Judiciary Committee ... in the case of John Ferguson, who was convicted in 1978 of killing eight people in one of the worst mass murders in Florida history ... Roberts didn't hesitate when colleagues asked him to provide advice involving appeals in the high-profile Florida case.

Ferguson, 56, was a triggerman in the killings of eight people in two separate, apparently drug-related shootings. His accomplices, Beauford J. White and Marvin Francois, have already been executed.

But Roberts' pro bono, or free, work as a lawyer at Washington's Hogan & Hartson — ranging from assisting welfare clients and gay rights activists ...Responding this week to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, Roberts cited cases involving minority voting rights, noise pollution at the Grand Canyon and environmental protection of Glacier Bay, Alaska.

TG: This sounds more like AlGore than it sounds like anyone remotely resembling a constitutional conservative.