John Roberts' papers have to be guarded!

A coalition of women's rights, civil rights, environmental and legal groups concerned about the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court on Friday pressed for the release of documents on his work on 16 important cases heard by the high court in the early 1990s.

Their call came a day after more than 38,000 pages of documents from Roberts' work as a lawyer in the Reagan White House in the early and mid-1980s were released. Some of those memos showed that Roberts helped to formulate positions critical of state and national initiatives aimed at ending sex discrimination. Boxes containing pages of presidential records from the files of nominee John Roberts are delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee from the National Archives and Records Administration on Capitol Hill August 18, 2005.

We're still more than 2 weeks away from the start of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' confirmation hearings on September 6, and already the media is trumpeting an almost-daily headline about his writings.

Are they talking about the decisions he has made as a judge?? Nope.

Or arguments he has made while in front of the Supreme Court?? Nope.

They're going all the way back to when he was a White House lawyer in the Reagan administration. We're talking more than 20 years ago.

The headlines all scream that "Roberts criticized efforts to fight gender discrimination" and "Roberts opposed abortion" and on and on.

By the time the media gets done with him, we'll have headlines calling John Roberts the Anti-Christ who goes around beating up little old ladies. If all they have on him is what he wrote as a kid two decades ago, he'll sail right through confirmation.

How many of us still believe the same things we did twenty years ago?? I doubt that many of us do, . . . nor could we hold someone responsible for same, . . . if we were intellectually honest, that is!

Let's not get too hopeful about too many Democrats suddenly becoming intellectually honest, okay??

God Bless,
Dan'L