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...nomination follows the unexpected death on Saturday of former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who held a masters degree from Harvard. Roberts had already been tapped to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’Connor. His confirmation hearings, the first in 11 years, were set to begin tomorrow, but have been delayed...
...argued 39 cases before the high court and won 25 of them. Colleagues recall his racing around the law firm with a white legal pad, jotting down questions he might be asked and then answering them. "He had it all the time," says a former colleague and fellow Rehnquist clerk, Gregory Garre. "I don't think he brought it to the supermarket, but he would have it with him in the office, and he'd bring it home at night." Roberts would amass 300 questions and answers for a major case, then stage moot-court sessions to rehearse them. Richard...
...historic standards, the Rehnquist years have been collegial, but the public arguments have grown ever fiercer in recent years. Every Justice feels entitled to pen his or her own dissent or concurring opinion to every paragraph written by the majority or the minority. It drives lower courts insane. By now, the Justices may know one another too well. Not since the 1820s has the court gone so long without getting any new blood. Of course, they know Roberts as well, though it may be his knowledge of them that proves a little unsettling. He has studied each of them closely...
...Crimson, becoming the seventh member of the Court to have attended Harvard. David H. Souter ’61 graduated from the College, while Justices Souter, Stephen G. Breyer, Antonin Scalia, and Anthony M. Kennedy hold HLS degrees. Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended HLS for two years, and Justice Rehnquist holds an M.A. in government from the University...
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...