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Several Republican committee members, including Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Az., offered their full endorsement for Roberts during the questioning on Wednesday.
During a break, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tex., called Roberts “the most qualified nominee who has ever been put up for a Supreme Court vacancy.”
But Roberts responded to Schumer in kind, getting his own share of laughs when he began his answer, “First, ‘Dr. Zhivago’ and ‘North by Northwest.’”
The nominee then delivered a serious answer to Schumer’s charges: “I think I have been more forthcoming than any of the other nominees,” said Roberts, who reviewed testimony from the confirmation hearings for the current justices in preparation for his own...
Schumer and Roberts, both graduates of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, also shared a brief exchange that harkened back to their days in Cambridge. The senator referenced Franklin L. Ford, a former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who taught history at Harvard while both men were...