[Mb-civic] The Nominee As a Young Pragmatist - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>The Nominee As a Young Pragmatist
Under Reagan, Roberts Tackled Tough Issues

By Jo Becker and Amy Argetsinger
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, July 22, 2005; Page A01

As an up-and-coming young lawyer in the White House counsel's office 
from 1982 to 1986, John G. Roberts Jr. weighed in on some of the most 
controversial issues facing the Reagan administration, balancing 
conservative ideology with a savvy political pragmatism and a confidence 
that belied his years.

<>Asked to review legislation that would have prohibited lower federal 
courts from ordering busing to desegregate public schools, Roberts, now 
President Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, took on no less a 
conservative legal scholar than Theodore B. Olson, who at the time was 
an assistant attorney general and later served as the solicitor general 
under Bush.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072101782.html?nav=hcmodule 

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