Center for Constitutional Rights

Challenge Roberts Ethical Lapses

While the citizens of America mobilize to help the victims of Katrina, the Bush administration is seeking a quick approval of John Roberts for Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Don’t let them off easy: Judge Roberts’s recent actions have raised serious ethical concerns that need to be addressed. Take a stand against the rubber stamp nomination by writing your senators today.

John Roberts applied for a job with the Bush administration while he was hearing a case in which members of the administration were defendants. He should have recused himself from the case. This is a clear conflict of interest and not the behavior of a future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Center for Constitutional Rights is asking all of its supporters to write their senators and tell them to hold John Roberts accountable for his actions and possible ethical lapses.

When John Roberts became a judge, he swore to be ethical in his decisions and actions on the bench. Roberts interviewing for a position on the Supreme Court while hearing the case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, raises serious questions about his ability to live up to those standards. His ruling supported unlimited power for the White House to detain individuals and designate them enemy combatants without rights to due process and asserted that the Geneva Conventions were unenforceable in U.S. court. The very next week, President Bush nominated him to the Supreme Court. Please join CCR in writing your senators and demanding that John Roberts be held accountable for his actions during the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case.

To read CCR’s testimony submitted to the Roberts confirmation hearings, click here.

September 02, 2010

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Challenge Roberts Ethical Lapses

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