Tuesday, September 13, 2005
From Truthout
New Criticisms Aimed at Roberts, By Peter G. Gosselin.
...The line of attack was first sounded Friday by the Democratic National Committee's outspoken chairman, Howard Dean, and reinforced Sunday by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), the only African American member of the Senate.Finally, we get to hear some Dean!
Speaking about the black residents of New Orleans, who were the storm's most visible victims, Dean said that Roberts' "entire legal career appears to be about making sure those folks don't have the same rights everybody else does."
"That's probably not the right thing to do," Dean continued, "two weeks after a disaster where certain members of society clearly did not have the same protections that everybody else did because of their circumstances... . I know Judge Roberts loves the law. I'm not sure he loves the American people."...