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August 21, 2005
Star Wars , er, John Roberts papers opening ...
Dana Milbank had a piece in Friday's WaPo about the release of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' (no relation, I don't believe, although he does look vaguely familiar...) archived government papers at the National Archives.
The throng of journalists lined up outside the National Archives yesterday morning made the place look like the Uptown Theater on "Star Wars" opening night, without the storm trooper costumes.They had come to examine 39,000 pages of the paper trail of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. -- perhaps even to find the smoking gun that would brand him a hard-edged conservative or a closet moderate -- and they vied fiercely for 71 boxes of 20-year-old documents.
Archivists drew names from a large, yellow suggestion box, as if performing the NFL draft. USA Today, with the first pick in the first round, went with Box 49, "set-aside cases." Reuters, picking second, chose Box 1, "advisory committees." ABC News got Box 6, "briefing materials," and Fox News selected Box 11, "Contra Aid."
"Newshounds on the Paper Chase," by Dana Milbank, The Washington Post, August 19, 2005
via fishbowlDC
Posted at August 21, 2005 12:23 PM | Categories: Washington, DC
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