August 01, 2005
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A
Minuteman Reader Reports On His Weekend
Linda Thom Provides A Clue About
Supreme Court Nominee John Robert’s Immigration Views
[Also
by Linda Thom:
“The U. S. Government Is Electing A New People,”
August 22, 2003]
Linda Thom writes:
Dear VDARE.COM readers:
Here is an excerpt from documents
that summarize Supreme Court nominee John
Roberts’ activities in the
Ronald Reagan White House:
Wrote the Washington Post:
"On
June 15, 1982, Roberts faulted the Justice Department
for the outcome in
Plyler v. Doe, in which the Supreme Court
overturned a
Texas law that had allowed school districts to deny
enrollment to children who had entered the country
illegally.
"Roberts argued that if the solicitor general's office
had taken a position in the case supporting the state of
Texas ‘and the values of judicial restraint,’ it could
have ‘altered the outcome of the case.’ “
"’In
sum, this is a case in which our supposed litigation
program to encourage
judicial restraint did not get off the ground, and
should have,’ Roberts wrote."
(“Documents Show Roberts’ Influence in Reagan Era,”
R. Jeffrey Smith, Jo Becker and Amy Goldstein,
Washington Post, July 27, 2005)
[VDare.com
note: Of course, it is not clear from this note that
Roberts realized, or cared about, the
catastrophic consequences of Plyler v. Doe. He may
just have been a lawyer being legalistic. But it has to
be said that in that case, his legalism would have saved
the Republic from a disaster of the first magnitude. How
many illegal immigrants over the past two decades would
have brought their children here, or
had children here, without free public education
being available? And how many Americans would have been
better educated had their classrooms not have been
swamped with non-English speaking children soaking
up the
resources of their schools?]
