Federalist Society

By David Swanson

Embedded below is a stunning video. The Bush-Cheney-Rove Justice Department prosecuted 600 elected officials plus 2,500 collateral cases (children, elderly parents, children of defense lawyers, etc), and 85 percent of the officials were Democrats. And -- this is something the filmmaker came to understand after producing this film -- most of the rest were moderate Republicans, not Federalist Society Republicans.

The prosecutions were concentrated in presidential election swing states, as were the U.S. attorney firings.

The cases overwhelmingly -- almost all of them -- went to the small number of judges who had been appointed by George W. Bush.

All the cases that resulted in short prison terms included probation periods until after the next election.

Top fundraisers and staff of presidential candidates Clinton, Edwards, and Obama were indicted.

According to news reports, Florida Representative Bob Allen (Republican) was arrested last July 11 for soliciting sex from an undercover black male cop. The reason he gave was his fear of black men...

Now many will quickly ask what rational person would believe such a cockamamy story ?

But hold on, now.. READ THE REST

Of course he's smiling!

He knows he can lie to the entire Senate and get away with it - just like every other Bush appointee!

I'm surprised he isn't laughing out loud hysterically.

After all, no one is bothering to notice - least of all the Democrats - that Roberts and his Federalist Society cronies have already turned the United States into a Fascist Dictatorship.

Don't believe me? Ask U.S. citizens Jose Padilla and Yasser Hamdi, who are rotting away in prison without charges or trial because Dictator Bush claims without any evidence that they are "enemy combatants." What happened to their rights? The Fasci-Federalist Society, that's what. And they'll be coming for you next.

What holds the Republican Right together?

There appears to be an ongoing power struggle between the Old Guard/Eastern/Oil(TX) Establishment and the New Right (of which the NeoCons are the vanguard). There are other factions as well. Part of the split is over the Middle East, with the Oil Establishment siding with their Arab business partners, and the NeoCons being Pro-Israel. When it came to Iraq, both wanted to take out Hussein -- it was over the method of his removal that they disagreed. The Easterners/Oil Barons (such as Bush Sr. and James Baker) wanted to do it the Cold War way, with a US-engineered coup. But the Neocons prevailed, and got their War.

Here's the John Roberts story in a nutshell:

Those who know Roberts say he, unlike Souter, is a reliable conservative who can be counted on to undermine if not immediately overturn liberal landmarks like abortion rights and affirmative action. Indicators of his true stripes cited by friends include: clerking for Rehnquist, membership in the Federalist Society, laboring in the Ronald Reagan White House counsel's office and at the Justice Department into the Bush years, working with Kenneth Starr among others, and even his lunchtime conversations at Hogan & Hartson. "He is as conservative as you can get," one friend puts it. In short, Roberts may combine the stealth appeal of Souter with the unwavering ideology of Scalia and Thomas.

I'm sure we'll learn lots more about Roberts' ideology in the coming days.