The New York Times continues on its John Roberts = extremist mission with a piece Thursday headlines An Advocate for the Right.

… But his internal memorandums, some of which have become public in recent days, reveal a philosophy every bit as conservative as that of the policy makers on the front lines of the Reagan revolution and give more definition to his image than was apparent in the first days after President Bush picked him to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.

On almost every issue he dealt with where there were basically two sides, one more conservative than the other, the documents from the National Archives and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library show that Judge Roberts, now of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, advocated the more conservative course.

So:

1) he was a conservative in a conservative administration

2) as a junior counsel, he did his job, which was to advocate for that administration

3) he was consistent in his philosophy.

How dare President Bush try to sneak this man onto the Supreme Court!

Just to make things more horrifying for the typical Times reader, writer David Rosenbaum manages to bring up James Watt in the second paragraph.

Scary!

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