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When Schumer asked Roberts yesterday what kind of a justice he would be if confirmed, the nominee encouraged him to look at the opinions he had written over the past two years as a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
...turns out, the roommate was practically dead on—the next time Roberts’ roommate saw him was when President George W. Bush introduced the D.C. Circuit Judge to the nation as his nominee to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court...
Most experts agree that Roberts, currently a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, is likely to secure the Judiciary Committee’s endorsement and win confirmation in the Senate...
...politicians and Washington insiders. Judiciary Chair Arlen Specter grilled Roberts on Roe v. Wade right from the start, as skybox onlookers such as former Solicitor General Ted Olson, former Presidential candidate Gary Bauer and former Indiana Representative David McIntosh crammed into Box 3e to watch the hearing on closed circuit television. It was a private setting, which Bauer and McIntosh, for their part, put to use for a quick briefing by nomination-strategy staffers from the offices of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Judiciary Committee member...
...went on to clerk for Circuit Judge Henry Friendly and Rehnquist, when Rehnquist was an associate justice on the Supreme Court. Roberts also worked in the Justice Department, serving as Deputy Solicitor General—one of the government’s main lawyers before the Supreme Court—and later had a private practice. By the time President Bush appointed him to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2002, Roberts had argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court and was known as one of the finest appellate litigators in the land...