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Both the president and Senate Republicans said today they planned to hold hearings on Roberts as soon as possible, beginning either this Thursday or next Monday after Rehnquist’s funeral, so that he can be confirmed by October. Some Democrats, however, say they need more time because a...
Today, as the president announced the nomination from the Oval Office with the nominee at his side, he praised both Roberts and Rehnquist, for whom Roberts clerked after law school.
“I am honored and humbled by the confidence that the President has shown in me,” Roberts said as he accepted the nomination. “I'm very much aware that if I am confirmed, I would succeed a man I deeply respect and...
If Roberts is confirmed, he will be, at age 50, the youngest chief justice since John Adams, Class of 1755, nominated 45-year-old John Marshall in 1801. Roberts also has relatively little experience on the bench, having served as an appeals court judge for just three years and written...
Roberts has experienced a meteoric rise to the top since he arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1973. He graduated summa cum laude in History in just three years and went on to graduate magna cum laude from HLS while serving as the Managing Editor of The Harvard Law...