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As for the man who seeks to fill Rehnquist’s seat, Dershowitz said Roberts, a former Rehnquist clerk, will be something of a “Rehnquist-lite.”
Fried said he hoped that Roberts would eschew his predecessor’s tendency to avoid excessive debate in favor of a “looser philosophy.”
In a stab at the 50-year-old Roberts, who, if confirmed, will be the youngest chief justice in 200 years, Dershowitz said, “Today, they’re trying to nominate fetuses in the hope that they will be kept alive like [Terri] Schiavo.?...
WASHINGTON—After nearly two months of anticipation, John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 fielded the first round of questions yesterday in his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Roberts, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, maintained his composure as he faced hours of questioning—sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile, and sometimes merely inquisitive—from the 18-member committee, but he also left some senators protesting that his answers were not entirely straightforward...