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The "Roberts Court": a CFR connection?(John G. Roberts Jr., Council on Foreign Relations)(Brief article)

The New American

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Shortly after John Roberts was chosen to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Newsweek published a profile containing passing mention of the appointee's enthusiasm for "a new book by Richard Haass, a friend who runs the Council on Foreign Relations."

Haass's book, entitled The Opportunity, elaborates on a concept expressed in Richard Gardner's revealing 1974 essay "The Hard Road to World Order," published in the CFR journal Foreign Affairs. Digested to its essence, the idea is to integrate the world under a single political and economic order through a war of attrition--in Gardner's infamous formulation, an "end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece."

"Our policies must recognize that globalization is a reality, not a choice," asserts Haass in the book that has so enchanted Roberts--who is now a ...

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