Summary
In two days of confirmation hearings for his nomination as chief justice of the United States, Judge John G. Roberts has outshone his critics with succinct and memorable statements of judicial philosophy. These statements will outlast whatever comes from his interlocutors on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
While the first Supreme Court nomination hearings in 11 years give only hints of what the court would be like under Judge Roberts, they certainly shed more light than whatever can be divined from two- decade-old Justice Department memos a young John Roberts authored a few years out of Harvard Law School. These initial indications are encouraging.See the full content of this document
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The Judge and the Senators
Most memorably, Judge Roberts used a baseball analogy to argue that the judiciary doesn't make the rules, it...
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