The Federalist Society is said to have 35,000 members. Perfectly ordinary lawyers join it to network, just the way they join other bar associations. Do you really expect an officer of a bar association that large to remember all of the association’s members?

If not, then his silence about Mincberg’s claim that Roberts is a member says nothing about whether Roberts is or was a member.

It’s the lying about it.

For Roberts to allow Scotty to claim he didn’t REMEMBER is disingenuous at best and outright deceitful at worst.

It’s like Clarence Thomas claiming that he had never thought about the issue of Roe v. Wade in HIS hearings. Some Senator should have simply said: “Well, sir, if you had told me that you had considered it, but since it might come before you some day, you wish not to answer, that I might accept, and if you had told me it was ‘none of my business’ that I might accept, but if as a lawyer and a scholar and a jurist you are going to tell me that you have never even considered one of the most important cases of our time, then I am going to have to call you either a liar or an idiot, but either way, unfit for the Supreme Court.” That’s what a Senator SHOULD have said.

Same with Roberts. He can stand up and say “Yes, I’m a member of this organization, and I’ve been on its steering committee and SO WHAT?” But when he LIES, he shows he’s just like all the other Republicans — lying trash who will say and do anything to get what they want.

It’s not the treason — it’s the lies.

Charlie L
Portland, OR
CLL2001@Gmail.com

Comment by Steve J. — July 26, 2005 @ 12:09 pm

My pleasure, Steve J. I could even dig up a few that Jefferson would agree that, in hindsight, proved he was the very “barbaric ancestors” he was afraid we might labor under the tyranny under, if we did what the morons at the Federalist Society, and other psuedo-conservatives advocated. Turn back the clock on over 200 years of hard fought and won progress and enlightenment.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy_Research

The Hamilton Society, eh, it has Steve Clemons on the advisory board, and a few other people that I would hi-five, but again, it’s the Hamilton Society, and we aren’t discussing Hamilton’s economic policies here.

HNN? There are plenty of things I find unappealing about some people and programs at George Mason U.

Comment by Big Al — July 26, 2005 @ 12:52 pm

So we just dig in our heels and stonewall until 2006 when we may be able to put them all in prison. Or does being called an “obstructionist” scare you? It’s what the majority of Americans want right now. If only enough Democrats had the balls, or weren’t GOP lite.

No offense, but that is just silly.

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_nypost-new_york_man.htm
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041026-090455-3346r.htm
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/12916.html
http://www.hamiltonsociety.org/biography.htm

And while we are at it, if you want to cite history from New York History societies (no agenda or bias there) you should they are selected to put the state and state history ain a favorable light. Here is your history of emancipation in New York. Short and sweet because that’s how a big history buff like you wants it.

http://www.slavenorth.com/nyemancip.htm

Furthermore, I find it interesting that people on this blog seem to actually believe that we brought down the WTC. We can’t keep Rove a secret. We can’t keep it a secret that Roberts was in the Federalist Society. But we can commit one of the greatest crimes in human history and no one has found us out?

You should go back to the study of your “history”. And try a nice liberal arts college, none of this conservative revisionist bullshit you are spouting. You don’t know WTF you are talking about. However, if John Roberts can be on the steering committee of the Federalist Society without being an actual dues paying member, I suppose it’s possible that Hamilton actually founded the New York Manumission Society, but was just listed as an officer, to protect his reputation, ya know.

As an adult, Hamilton consistently opposed slavery, served as an officer of the New York Manumission Society and tended to hold the southern planter class in low regard. It should be noted, however, that, as a true pragmatist, he was willing to compromise on issues of slavery in the interests of strengthening the union. The South’s slave-based economy, after all, provided the raw materials that drove the economic engines of the North, which Hamilton regarded as the essential foundation for the country.