Center For Individual Freedom

by Alexander Schwab

07/26/05

A California toad is creating quite a stir in Judge John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States. And no, it's not Barbara Boxer. Judge Roberts, whose indefatigably mainstream record on the bench has frustrated attempts to brand him an extremist, is now under fire for an opinion he penned that discusses the federal government's power over the habitat of the Arroyo Southwestern Toad. Never mind that the opinion was a dissent, and so establishes no precedent; never mind that the court was simply ruling on whether or not to hear the case; never mind that Judge Roberts was not alone. Judge Roberts' failure to support the toad (via the vehicle of federal regulation) proves he must be an anti-environmentalist reactionary...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp