The more papers that get released about Supreme Court nominee, the farther to the right he appears to be. Why are the Dems caving in on this fight? Is he that comfortably within the mainstream? Here's USA Today on Roberts and equal pay for women -- in short, he compares the idea to communism, which is about the nastiest thing you could say about something in the Reagan Administration during the Cold War.
As an assistant White House counsel in 1984, John Roberts scoffed at the notion that men and women should earn equal pay in jobs of comparable importance, and he belittled three female Republican members of Congress who promoted that idea to the Reagan administration....
"I honestly find it troubling that three Republican representatives are so quick to embrace such a radical redistributive concept," wrote Roberts in a memo. "Their slogan may as well be, 'From each according to his ability, to each according to her gender.' "
