August 22, 2005

Worrying Less about Roberts

Nina Totenberg really likes the word "very" when describing Judge John Roberts. Sometimes he's "very very conservative" other times he's "very very very conservative." And just to mix things up Roberts is "a really conservative guy," "a hardline conservative," "a clear conservative," and "a conservative Catholic." I have been a little uncomfortable with Roberts simply because few know much about his judicial philosophy. He's worked in conservative Republican circles. That doesn't mean he'll be Scalia II. But the more I learn about Roberts' history and the attacks on him make me think he won't be Souter II. He seems to be a conservative who is intellectually honest enough to raise his thinking beyond mere ideology. Russell Kirk would be proud.

"Totenberg: Roberts 'Much More Conservative than I Ever Would Have Guessed'"