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Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz said the change of Roberts’ nomination from associate to chief justice would not make the confirmation more difficult...
...Warren Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz said that the confirmation is not dramatically different...
...symbolic level the chief justice represents the Supreme Court on ceremonial occasion,” Horwitz said. “So the chief justice has a larger potential public voice. But if I were a senator it would not fundamentally change my vote if he were nominated to be an associate justice or chief justice...
...Horwitz said that although the chief’s additional powers are important, they are not as great as they first seem...
...will be, at age 50, the youngest chief justice since John Adams, Class of 1755, nominated 45-year-old John Marshall in 1801. Roberts also has relatively little experience on the bench, having served as an appeals court judge for just three years and written 47 opinions. But Horwitz said that what is so unique, historically, about the Roberts nomination is his lack of prior political activity...