Volume 52, Number 15 · October 6, 2005
John Roberts: The Nominee
By William L. Taylor
The most intriguing question about John Roberts is what led him as a young person whose success in life was virtually assured by family wealth and academic achievement to enlist in a political campaign designed to deny opportunities for success to those who lacked his advantages. It is a question of great relevance to Roberts's candidacy for the Supreme Court. As the late Charles Black has written, no serious person is under the illusion that 'a judge's judicial work is not influenced...by his sense, sharp or vague, of where justice lies in respect to the great issues of his time.'
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