voices.washingtonpost.com - 1/14/2009
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By Robert Barnes Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will welcome President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph Biden -- two senators who voted against his confirmation -- to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, the court announced tonight. The court said Roberts, who will ...
latimes.com - 1/15/2009
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Wednesday's meeting was described as a relaxed, get-acquainted
session. It included Roberts, seven associate justices and Vice...
President-elect Joe Biden. The absence of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who was at the court Wednesday morning for arguments ...
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Obama, Biden Head to Supreme Court Wednesday
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... The president- and VP-elects will pay a pre-inaugural visit to the Supreme Court Wednesday afternoon.
They'll be visiting at the invitation of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
It will mark the third time in recent history that a president- and VP-elect have visited the court. ...
Obama, Biden Invited to Supreme Court
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Chief Justice John Roberts "will welcome President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph Biden -- two senators who voted against his confirmation -- to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon," the Washington Post reports.
"A meeting between the president and the court is something of a modern-day tradition. Ronald Reagan and his vice president, George H.W. Bush, visited with the justices before they took office in 1980, and Bill Clinton and Al Gore made the trip in 1992 (the famously late Clinton kept the justices waiting). In the wake of the ...
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