SCOTUS Nominee,John Roberts

Being just a layman in these matters I have to leave educated opinions to those that have them and that I trust,Ann coulter and her skeptical brethren and Hugh Hewitt and others on the positive side. The positive seems to greatly outwiegh the skepicism at this point.I like the choice though I preferred Luttig.Another good piece inTWS by Matthew Continneti on Judge Roberts.

John Roberts's Other Papers

From the August 8, 2005 issue: Portrait of the judge as an undergraduate.

by Matthew Continetti 08/08/2005, Volume 010, Issue 44


John Roberts was born in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Long Beach, Indiana, but he spent much of his young adulthood--about six years--in Cambridge, Massachusetts, first as an undergraduate at Harvard College, then as a student at Harvard Law. Roberts matriculated at Harvard in the fall of 1973, graduated summa cum laude three years later, entered Harvard Law that fall, graduated magna cum laude in 1979--and was promptly hospitalized for exhaustion.
Ever since July 19, when President Bush nominated Roberts to replace retiring associate Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, accounts of the nominee's Harvard days have found their way into newspaper profiles and magazine sidebars. The anecdotes tend to be isolated, the events only dimly recalled, but taken together they suggest a driven young man, eager to achieve, and possessed of an intellect that would allow him to achieve. The only question was . . . achieve what? When Roberts arrived on campus, he was drawn to the study of history. One of his roommates told the Harvard Crimson the other day that "John loved history, and said he'd be a history professor." One of his advisers, William LaPiana, now a professor at New York Law School, told the Crimson that Roberts was a "hard-working and happy undergraduate who loved studying history." Early on, then, a life in academia was a possibility.

Update from the OPJ:The Roberts Documents

The White House Counsel's office now needs the stomach to fight.

BY MANUEL MIRANDA

Friday, July 29, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT
Whatever is to be said, as the Journal's editorial page did yesterday, about whether the White House blundered in volunteering 75,000 pages of John Roberts's work product from his years in the Reagan administration, one sentiment is widely shared among conservatives: What a relief. Judge Roberts's writings as a young lawyer show him to be a solid constitutionalist