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A bipartisan group of 156 members of the D.C. Bar also sent a letter in 2003 encouraging the Judiciary Committee to approve Roberts.
In between stints with the government, Roberts worked at the law firm Hogan & Hartson, where he established himself as a top appellate lawyer with an impressive record—he has argued a total of 39 cases before the Supreme Court, winning 25 of them.
Bush nominated him to the D.C. Circuit Court in January 2003. It was the third nomination for Roberts, who had previously been nominated to that court by both President Bush and his father. The third time proved the charm—Roberts was confirmed in May, 2003.
“In my view...there is no better appellate advocate than John Roberts,” Walter E. Dellinger III, who served as solicitor general under former President Bill Clinton, told the Judiciary Committee.
Nagourney, who wrote most recently in The Times about Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts ’76, projected that the upcoming election will be “the first genuinely open presidential race in 50 years.”