John Roberts Nominated for Supremes

This is from Captain's Quarter. Pretty interesting detail of what occurred during and after the nomination. He also shows some of the half-wits comments that are coming out. (I'm of course referring to the Leahy/Schumer vaudeville act.)

How Appealing has a quite large sysnopsis on the press reporting on the nomination.

The Supreme Court Nomination Blog has quite a bit of info as well. They have a "Nutshell" analysis of Roberts that is informative for those that don't want to wade through all the press BS.

I thought I'd give my sense of the answer to the question of what I think John Roberts will be like as a Supreme Court Justice. The answer is that he will be like William Rehnquist, his former boss.

Judge Roberts, like the Chief, is an institutionalist - he has worked for essentially his entire professional career before the Supreme Court.

I also have the sense that they have a similar ideology. For example, I get the sense that he (like the Chief) simultaneously believes in strong Executive Powers (see the D.C. Circuit's recent Hamdan decision, which he joined) but also limited federal powers (see his dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc in the Rancho Viejo case).

One difference may be that Judge Roberts's opinions show him to be more of a judicial craftsman than the Chief, who tends to write as concisely and directy as possible. But in analyzing cases, the two are similar, as Judge Roberts explained in his hearings that it may be appropriate to rely on different sources of meaning -- e.g., text and history -- depending on the precise context.

Yeah, a little thin, but more than any place I've seen so far.