His "Hipness"?
This piece by Linda Greenhouse is inexplicably titled "His Hipness, John G. Roberts." Where, precisely, the "hipness" quotient comes in isn't clear, but it's an entertaining little overview of the Chief Justice's first term.
Greenhouse turns to a number of law professors including Erwin Chemerinsky and Jack Balkin (both liberals) for commentary. What's worth noting, however, is that she didn't consult (or at least quote) a single conservative -- even though plenty are out there, including John Eastman of Chapman, Adrian Vermeule of Harvard, John Yoo of Berkeley, John Manning of Harvard and Jack Goldsmith of Harvard . . . just to name a few.
Greenhouse does mention in passing that Chief Justice Roberts is a former managing editor of The Harvard Law Review -- a fact dear to my heart, as I am, too. More significantly, near the end of the piece, Greenhouse also speculates about whether the Chief Justice could drift left over time in the style of Earl Warren (although she notes that other Chief Justices have resisted the pressure to "grow" on the bench).
My guess is that the Chief will remain impervious to the Greenhouse effect". A small but telling detail in the piece is that, in his very first Supreme Court opinion, the Chief Justice quoted Henry Friendly, the first judge for whom he clerked.
He's a man who doesn't forget who helped him, and where he came from -- an honorable trait, indeed. And that leads me to believe that he's going to remain very much the same kind of jurist he is today -- happily for America and its jurisprudence.
Greenhouse turns to a number of law professors including Erwin Chemerinsky and Jack Balkin (both liberals) for commentary. What's worth noting, however, is that she didn't consult (or at least quote) a single conservative -- even though plenty are out there, including John Eastman of Chapman, Adrian Vermeule of Harvard, John Yoo of Berkeley, John Manning of Harvard and Jack Goldsmith of Harvard . . . just to name a few.
Greenhouse does mention in passing that Chief Justice Roberts is a former managing editor of The Harvard Law Review -- a fact dear to my heart, as I am, too. More significantly, near the end of the piece, Greenhouse also speculates about whether the Chief Justice could drift left over time in the style of Earl Warren (although she notes that other Chief Justices have resisted the pressure to "grow" on the bench).
My guess is that the Chief will remain impervious to the Greenhouse effect". A small but telling detail in the piece is that, in his very first Supreme Court opinion, the Chief Justice quoted Henry Friendly, the first judge for whom he clerked.
He's a man who doesn't forget who helped him, and where he came from -- an honorable trait, indeed. And that leads me to believe that he's going to remain very much the same kind of jurist he is today -- happily for America and its jurisprudence.
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:50 AM
2 Comments:
That's precisely what she meant, and it would cause her to emit a big, big stink if a liberal justice did the same.
Wrabkin:
"... He is supposed to be an objective judge of the law and the facts, ..."
What? No creating new rights or writing law from the bench?
Hey Wrabkin, we agree!
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