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After taking the oath of office, Roberts said he plans to work with his colleagues to “pass on to my children’s generation a charter of self-government as strong and as vibrant as the one that Chief Justice [William H.] Rehnquist passed on to...
Roberts also quoted Daniel Webster, about whom he wrote a prize-winning essay as an undergraduate at Harvard.
“What Daniel Webster termed ‘the miracle of our Constitution’ is not something that happens in every generation, but every generation in its turn must accept the responsibility of supporting and defending the Constitution and bearing true faith and allegiance to it,?...
All 55 Republican senators voted to confirm Roberts, as did 22 Democrats and the Senate’s one independent. The remaining 22 senators, all Democrats, voted against his confirmation.
Roberts was sworn in by Associate Justice John Paul Stevens at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House this afternoon. He will also take part in an investiture ceremony on Monday morning at the Supreme Court prior to taking his place at the center of the bench...