tbogg.firedoglake.com - 5/19/2009
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Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. :
Roberts’s hard-edged performance at oral argument offers more than just a rhetorical contrast to the rendering of himself that he presented at his confirmation hearing. “Judges are like umpires,” Roberts said at the time. “Umpires don’t make ...
slate.com - 5/27/2009
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slate.com —
Score one for Bruce Reed . He picked
up on what I completely missed this week: that...
the most telling aspect of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' adolescence was not his staunch refusal to get high in the woods , but his contempt for all things ...
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John Roberts' woman problem. - By Dahlia Lithwick - ...
eschatonblog.com - 5/19/2009
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eschatonblog.com —
Toobin describes him perfectly. Roberts’s hard-edged performance at
oral argument offers more than just a rhetorical contrast...
to the rendering of himself that he presented at his confirmation hearing. “Judges are like umpires,” Roberts said at the ...
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And if it weren’t for Hamilton, John Roberts would be making $1500 a year as Chief Justice
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
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Via TBogg, Jeffrey Toobin describes John Roberts in terms that would surely have struck fear into the hearts of the founding fathers contemplating the judiciary:
In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff…
Scurrilous blogger Alexander Hamilton touched on this kind of ...
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