I don’t think he said he’s known him for a long time. He said he was aware of him when they were both in the Reagan administration but that he didn’t really know him. It’s not like they’re friends or anything.
Hewitt shared an office with Roberts at Justice during the Reagan Administration. He said he just straight up WRONG with his ruling.
I'll take Hewitt and Levin on Constitutional law way more than John Roberts who has had little to no experience with it outside of DC and a very short span on the bench prior to his appointment to the SCOTUS. The reason why he is on the bench is because we have to sly everyone of our appointments through the process or they will get the Bork treatment. Yet we can not even get absolute hacks like Kagan, Ginsburg and Sotomeyor to even be scrutinized by the Republican members of the Senate!
Levin used the word “known” but I didn’t hear him say that the Chief Kangaroo was a “friend”. You may be right. Bob