John Roberts: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings from PBS NewsHour and EMK Institute

[jaqqqqqqattack]

@AntonBatey That is part of the reason he's Chief Justice - he's able to talk to people and he comes off as reasonable, a good leader for the Court, much like Rehnquist was. (I remember reading Rehnquist's Roe dissent - it is a dissent but reasonable and based on good arguments, as opposed to, say, Scalia's dissent in the Casey case, which is just a moral outrage-style tirade.)

[jimmbo13]

I like Roberts, but his eyes seemed oddly bulging in some shots

[RomanVLX]

I wanna have the job of the guys just chilling on the ground.

[IHateLadyGaga1991]

This is from September 13, 2005.

[sonicdoommario]

I'm liberal but if you pulled a generic judge out of a box you'd get John Roberts. He looks so judicial looking lol.

He'd also look like a good James Bond actor for the 1970s.

[rootedsorrow]

I think Roberts is a hunk!

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, EMKInstitute.

[gim10003]

Roberts is great, but he oversimplifies when he says judges are like umpires, calling "balls and strikes." In many cases they're forced to do more than that. When the intended meaning of a statute or clause of the constitution is unclear in general, or as applied to the facts of a case, they have to fill in those gaps with their "judgment." If things were simply balls and strikes, we'd hardly need appellate judges at all.

[Reggie1971]

The smartest person in the Federal Government. PERIOD. Smarter even than...THE ONE.

[NYerintransit]

Efforts to demonize Roberts in these hearings fell flat on their face. Roberts was too knowledgeable to painted as an extremist.

[AntonBatey]

@NYerintransit

I agree. Chief Justice Roberts is not an extremist. Justices’ Scalia and Thomas, on the other hand, do come off as extremists.

[aznkent29]

dude.....ted kennedy is so red in the face.....he needs to take a chill pill......he has some serious anger issues.....

[jancivil]

If he is right-hand oriented (he is ambidextrous - "I write with the left but everything else I do right-handed"), during the questions of 'court-created solutions' his eyes - for the first time in this clip - begin to dart to the right (I pretty much established looking to the left as a baseline), which indicate someone in 'fabrication mode', the other side of the brain from 'recall mode'. He's very robotic.