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Another plus is his experience in the private sector, which will inject some involvement in a court woefully under-qualified in matters of commercial law. Justice Breyer is the only justice on the Court with experience in business litigation, and the Court??s reluctance to reform the neglected inconsistencies in the field has left a messy legal terrain...
Scherer also predicts that—if he is named to the Supreme Court?? Roberts would show his sharp wit more frequently. “It has come out a bit in the hearings,” Scherer says, “but he’s just biding his time and biting his tongue right...
...switching Roberts’ nomination from associate to chief justice, Bush aims to have nine justices on the bench when the Supreme Court??s term starts...
...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...
...Swapping Roberts for Rehnquist thus leaves the Court??s ideological balance pretty much intact,” Fallon wrote in an e-mail. “O’Connor was pretty conservative, but she was right in the center of the Supreme Court on which she served...