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Kid Berwyn

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Tue Jul 1, 2025, 12:34 PM Jul 2025

White Affirmative Action: Just-Us John Roberts [View all]



How John Roberts Got to the Top

The Spectre of White Affirmative Action


By LINN WASHINGTON, Jr.
September 28, 2005, CounterPunch

EXCERPT...

Bush's selection of John Roberts for Chief Justice is a glaring example of white affirmative-action irrespective of Roberts' respected legal acumen elevating him above the ranks of an inadequately prepared candidate.

The bigot Bush designated Roberts to replace, the late William Rehnquist, at least spent fourteen years as a Supreme Court Justice before his elevation to Chief Justice.

Roberts has less than three years experience as a federal appeals court judge, getting that lofty position without having any prior judicial experience.

SNIP...

Roberts landed a plum clerkship with a federal appeals judge after his Harvard Law School graduation, followed immediately by a prestige elevating clerkship with US Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist ­ who never hired a black law clerk.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/09/28/the-spectre-of-white-affirmative-action/

A 20 Year-old article that is still news to most everybody in the United States of America.
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