The Roberts Court

As expected, John Roberts was confirmed and sworn in today. CNN has the details.

The Washington Post notes the Senate Democrats' 22 to 22 split "illuminated the influence that presidential politics and red-state, blue-state considerations play in a party struggling to end nearly a decade of unbroken GOP control of Congress."

Of course, the story is not the confirmation itself, it's what it means to the future. The New York Times sets the stage: "To the most casual courtroom observer, the change will be obvious. A vigorous 50-year-old, the youngest chief justice since John Marshall took the oath 204 years ago at the age of 45, will be seated in the center chair instead of his mentor, the 80-year-old William H. Rehnquist, who labored to breathe through a tracheotomy tube and consequently could speak only in short bursts during the last months of his life."


September 29, 2005


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