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Roberts’ re-nomination follows the unexpected death on Sept. 3 of former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who holds a masters degree from Harvard. Roberts was previously tapped to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor...
...measure time in terms of presidencies and chief justiceships,” he said. “This exaggerates the role of the chief justice in history. For instance, the Rehnquist court had a lot of aspects who were not just Chief Justice Rehnquist...
Last week, as the president announced the re-nomination from the Oval Office with the nominee at his side, Bush praised Roberts and Rehnquist, for whom Roberts clerked after finishing law school...
...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...
...immediately and thanked Bush. It's uncertain who was happier; Roberts was fulfilling a lifelong ambition, but Bush was getting his first good news in days. It was a smart political move for a beleaguered president. Roberts seemed to be on his way to confirmation before Chief Justice William Rehnquist died at his Virginia home on Saturday night. Now, barring some unforeseen development, Bush will have his own chief justice in place when the Court begins its new session in October-and he will make his mark on the court for 30 or 40 years. And since Sandra...