Oliphant has no law degree that I am aware of, and the fact that he can do a Google search for “obscure ancient legal dissent” doesn’t give him one. The only summa cum laude he has is in Kerry licking. How can he sit there and insinuate anything about Roberts without so much as having even spoken to him, much less interviewed him?

On what basis can he presume to know anything about what Judge Roberts really thinks about this or any other legal decision, much less accuse him of what Oliphant wants to believe about him? I wonder what Oliphant thinks Senator Robert “Grand Kleagle” Byrd’s opinion of Plessy v. Ferguson might be? Byrd was actively persecuting blacks before Roberts was even a gleam in his father’s eye, yet seems to be immune from Oliphant’s poison pen. Were Oliphant’s opposite number in the conservative press to write an analogous column about Byrd, he/she would be attacked for hate speech or one of the many “phobias” that liberals holster like six shooters.

Oliphant writes “In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law.” How can he reconcile that single powerful statement with the government sanctioned racism called Affirmative Action?

Thomas Oliphant is so blinded by liberal hatred, his columns have become, well, written versions of Pat Oliphant cartoons, dripping with ignorance, inaccuracy, and one sided, extremist liberal hypocrisy.