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...attribute while also nominating someone of unknown judicial expertise. Harriet Miers might have still been confirmed had she consistently demonstrated a high level of constitutional acumen. This was how, despite a relatively thin paper trail and his refusal to state explicitly his positions on certain constitutional issues, former deputy Solicitor General John G. Roberts survived his nomination process to become Chief Justice. On the contrary, many of the senators that spoke with Miers were less than enthused with her knowledge of the Constitution. In fact, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Arlen Specter, R-Pa., declared upon speaking with...
...With his nomination of Harriet Miers, who had little experience with constitutional law, Bush went with advice that he pick someone from outside the "judicial monastery." This time, the President went with one of the high priests. As assistant to the solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan, Alito argued 12 cases before the Supremes, and has presented at least two dozen before federal courts of appeal. And while a limited paper trail was one of the Democrats' few quibbles with the record of Judge John Roberts as he was being considered for chief justice, Alito has a four-lane highway...
Roberts subsequently served as a lawyer in the Reagan administration, as deputy solicitor general under President George H. W. Bush, and then as a private-practice attorney specializing in appellate arguments...
Roberts subsequently served as a lawyer in the Reagan administration, as deputy solicitor general under President George H. W. Bush, and then as a private-practice attorney specializing in appellate argument...
...brief is especially significant because the counsel of record for the schools, former solicitor general Seth P. Waxman ’73, has argued over 45 cases before the high court and is likely to have the ears of justices...