A judicious warning about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts from my esteemed father, in TPMCafe's Supreme Court Watch:

All the indications are that he will become another vote to expand presidential power in national-security affairs, to limit the federal government's authority to regulate business and the environment and protect civil rights, to make it harder for women, minorities, labor and the disabled to pursue practical remedies in the courts, and to favor a larger role for religion in public life and as object of public subsidy. He is most likely to do this incrementally, case-by-case, rather than by sweeping new doctrines.... Roberts will be very hard to challenge, because all Bush's choices were bound to be bad and this one could have been much worse. More.