So, looks like the Democrats are basically conceding that Roberts will be a Supreme Court Justice:
Democrats have decided that unless there is an unexpected development in the weeks ahead, they will not launch a major fight to block the Supreme Court nomination of John G. Roberts Jr., according to legislators, Senate aides and party strategists.The Post maintains that Roberts will still face tough questioning, but there is no real plan to block his nomination.
In a series of interviews in recent days, more than a dozen Democratic senators and aides who are intimately involved in deliberations about strategy said that they see no evidence that most Democratic senators are prepared to expend political capital in what is widely seen as a futile effort to derail the nomination.
The Democrats have to really find out if Roberts opposes the right to privacy. But, absent some kind of major revelation, they are not going to expend political capital fighting Roberts.
This should remind everyone who cares about privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, gay rights and civil rights that elections matter. Once Bush was re-elected, it was pre-ordained we were going to get a conservative on the Court. Roberts isn't an obvious horror show (like so many of Bush's lower court appointments.) The next one will probably will be.
