Posted on 09/05/2005 10:54:30 PM PDT by Kay
Judge John G. Roberts Jr. was long regarded as the best Supreme Court lawyer in the nation by the very man whose shoes President Bush has chosen him to fill.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died Saturday, played a key role in shaping Judge Roberts by making him a pupil during the early 1980s and propelling his career as a lawyer and federal judge in subsequent years.
Ted Cruz, who clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist during the mid-1990s, recalled that he and fellow clerks once asked their boss whom he considered to be the most superior Supreme Court litigator.
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When Mr. Bush nominated Judge Roberts to replace outgoing Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, some suggested that it might have been more poetic had Judge Roberts been nominated to replace Chief Justice Rehnquist, because it was under the chief justice's wing that his career in Washington blossomed.
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The dems are just throwing up new smoke on Roberts regarding being Chief Justice. Just a stalling tactic. Chieft Justice is a nice title and all. However, you still just have one vote, and your influence is not any greater on the other justices. Isn't chief justice basically the CEO/Office Manager for the USSC?
A minority woman would be wonderful. That wouldn't stop the despicable conduct of the Dems but it would reflect more poorly on them than if they were attacking a white man like Roberts.
Correct.
The only material difference the Chief Justice has is to delegate which justice authors majority opinions when the Chief himself is part of the majority.
On a side note- I was watching MSNBC on my flight home from Anchorage today. Dershowitz was talking about how Roberts should not have to answer case-specific questions before the committee (i.e. Ginsberg) as it denigrates the court system and would destroy the nomination process for the future. It was a pleasing surprise.
Wow. That is pretty amazing. The paranoid side of me says " Oh no, what does Dershowitz know that we don't know?"
I wouldn't get too paranoid. I have a habit of watching cable news when I'm at home practicing my trumpet in the afternoon and I've seen that type of statement out of Dershowitz before (not that it doesn't surprise me every time). Even though his personal politics don't really line up with anyone in Freeperland, has does seem to have a very deep respect for the American judicial system. I can't really cite anything specific-you're just gonna have to take my word for it.
Not that that makes him any less of a tool. Har Har.
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