Word: jurist
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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...
Roberts’ circuit court confirmation hearings were highlighted by glowing accounts of Roberts’ skills as a jurist...
...American Bar Association gave him the rating of “Well Qualified” without reservation, the highest possible mark for a jurist...
...confirmation process produced a wealth of glowing recommendations. He received the rating of “Well Qualified” without reservation from the American Bar Association, the highest possible mark for a jurist...
...owning of slaves. Jefferson aimed to be very different from his father. No founder worked harder at being civilized. Even by 1782, as an admiring French visitor observed, Jefferson, "without having quitted his own country," had become "an American who...is a musician, draftsman, astronomer, natural philosopher, jurist and a statesman...