On the other hand, Judge Roberts is doing a fabulous job of explaining the role of advocates in our legal system. I'm a lawyer, and it almost made me cry. I've seen so much that is not up to that standard but that nevertheless the standard that should apply.
I know what you mean. It's not often that you see the utter brilliance of a man at the pinnacle of his profession, and who is operating in such a principled manner in everything that he does.
This presentation is more uplifting that Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (perhaps that should have been his favorite movie). One man goes to Washington, D.C., teaches constitutional law as it never has been taught anywhere else, drills into the heads of these Democratic senators -- time and time again -- that a lawyer/judge simply thinks differently than a legislator, and winds up creating a mold for other strict constructionists who may be nominated in the future.
Judge Roberts is a man who lives and breathes elevated legal analysis like no other person I have ever seen before. I would bet that this performance will move idealistic college students to apply to law school, the way that All the President's Men moved them to become journalists in the 1970s.