CBS: Senators Want Roberts To Reply Now

(AP) Two Democratic senators said Wednesday that they want Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to explain before his confirmation hearings why he continued to judge a lawsuit against the Bush administration while being interviewed to be a justice.

White House spokesman Steve Schmidt said in response that "the opponents of Judge Roberts are increasingly grasping at straws trying to find a rationale for opposing him."

That month, Roberts sat on a three-judge panel that refused to block military tribunals for terror suspects. A lawsuit against the administration was brought by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who once was al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's driver.

He recently recused himself from a case involving the American Bar Association, Feingold and Schumer said, presumably because the ABA was preparing its rating of him for his Supreme Court nomination.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/25/politics/main795134.shtml


(emphasis mine - I had not seen the ABA story before)

I am glad CBS is keeping this story alive - this question needs to be answered. I suspect that Bushco was quite desperate to keep those tribunals.

for anything of this nature since for all the bellowing that they engage in periodically doesn't stop them from rubberstamping a fair amount of really terrible and hurtful legislation.