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All year, Washington has been gearing up for a monster fight over filling the first Supreme Court vacancy in 11 years. Instead, the city watched its political generals and foot soldiers put their guns back into their holsters last week. After his meeting with Roberts, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid...
In his first round of private interviews with Senators, Roberts described himself again and again as "modest"--a deliberate word choice that liberals would read as suggesting he wouldn't overturn previous court decisions on issues like abortion and that conservatives would read as reassurance that he wouldn't be...
There is no doubt that John Roberts has all the credentials that a President could ask for in a Supreme Court nominee: the Harvard degrees, the federal clerkships, the government service and the years at a white-shoe Washington law firm. But in the post-Bork age, with the opposition...
Roberts, after all, has been a federal appeals judge for only a little more than two years, on a court that hears primarily arcane cases concerning administrative and regulatory law rather than the broad constitutional issues before the Supreme Court. And in his roles as a hired corporate gun or...
Not every case Roberts has worked on will suit their purposes. Although for the most part he has shown a reliably conservative streak, Roberts has also taken some surprising stances, defending the rights of welfare recipients, criminal defendants and prisoners in pro bono cases, for instance, and representing the state...