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President George W. Bush nominated John G. Roberts Jr. ’76 to be the 17th Chief Justice of the United States Monday. If the Senate confirms him, Roberts will become the first graduate of Harvard College or Harvard Law School (HLS) to serve as chief justice.
The re-nomination follows the unexpected death on Saturday of former Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who held a masters degree from Harvard. Roberts had already been tapped to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’Connor. His confirmation hearings, the first in 11 years, were set to begin...
"He thrives on challenges and I have no doubt this is precisely where he wants to be," said Robert N. Bush '77, Roberts' roommate at Harvard for three years. "Few people who study history are destined to influence it as he may."
It's perhaps fitting that the media luminaries of his adopted country would lament the Canadian-born Jennings' passing; Cokie Roberts, his ABC colleague for almost twenty years, recalls that it wasn't unusual for Jennings to get misty-eyed when discussing the virtues of the U.S. Constitution. He bragged...
Meanwhile, though, military authorities are planning to restart the military tribunals that were halted last year on orders of another federal judge. Thanks in part to Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, whose vote with two of his colleagues on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the lower court's...