Word: robertses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to recommend John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 to be the nation’s seventeenth chief justice, making the judge’s confirmation before the full Senate next week almost certain.
In the 13-to-5 vote, three Democrats on the committee joined its 10 Republican members to endorse Roberts, while the remaining five Democratic senators voted against him.
“We’re still unsure of how to answer Roberts?’” Schumer said.
Yesterday’s committee vote followed four days of hearings last week, during which senators questioned Roberts about his personal views and his judicial philosophy.
And in 1977, he said, his constitutional law section included one student whose opinion could sway the outcome of the FAIR case: chief justice nominee John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76.