Foreword
On September 6, 2005, President George W. Bush nominated Appellate Judge John D. Roberts to become the seventeenth chief justice of the United States.Bush had previously nominated Roberts to replace retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on July 19, but following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist on September 3, Bush renominated Roberts to the higher position. Coincidentally, Roberts had served as a law clerk to then-Associate Justice Rehnquist from 1980 to 1981.Prior to his nomination to the High Court, Roberts spent two years as a judge on the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. While…
