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...week of all four suspects in the failed July 21 bombing--who apparently had intended to inflict carnage on a comparable scale--provided a measure of relief to a jittery city. In Birmingham, in the center of England, police snared Yasin Hassan Omar, allegedly the man shown on closed-circuit-television tapes who was planning to bomb the Warren Street underground station. The Peabody bust netted Ibrahim Muktar Said, suspected of trying to bomb a bus in east London, and Ramzi Mohammed, who fled from the Oval station after allegedly leaving a bomb. And in Italy, authorities announced they...
Roberts seemed on a fast track to judicial glory in 1992, when George H.W. Bush tapped him for the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals at the age of 36. But he encountered his first setback when the bid died in the Senate with Bill Clinton's victory. Then George W. Bush tried in 2001 and finally succeeded in 2003. In the meantime, Roberts spent most of the '90s biding his time, getting rich as a corporate lawyer at Hogan & Hartson, one of Washington's largest firms, where he quickly emerged as the supreme commander of Supreme Court battles...
Roberts’ circuit court confirmation hearings were highlighted by glowing accounts of Roberts’ skills as a jurist...
After graduating from HLS, Roberts went to Washington, where he clerked for Rehnquist, who at the time was an associate justice on the Supreme Court. He also clerked for Circuit Judge Henry Friendly, a well known jurist with a non-ideological reputation and to whom Roberts is often compared...
Bush nominated him to the D.C. Circuit Court in January 2003. It was the third nomination for Roberts, who had previously been nominated to that court by both President Bush and his father. The third time proved the charm—Roberts was confirmed...