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"I'm not too sure if his heart is as big as his head." HARRY REID, U.S. Senate Minority Leader, on his decision to vote against Supreme Court Chief Justice nominee John Roberts, before the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 13 to 5 to recommend his confirmation
Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, who taught Roberts in law school, said yesterday that the reason for Roberts’ reticence “is fairly straightforward—he wants to be confirmed.”
“Do you see the people behind the precedents? The families behind the footnotes?” Durbin later asked Roberts.
When Kennedy asked Roberts whether he would approach the law with “both a heart and a head,” the nominee gave an answer that he apparently hoped would lay the senators’ concerns to rest.
“We, obviously, deal with documents and texts, the Constitution, the statutes, the legislative history, and that’s where the legal decisions are made,” Roberts said. “But judges never lose sight or should never lose sight of the fact that...