Midwestern Scholar allowing a Conservative Bent
Question for the intellectual development of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, his college roommate, Bob Bush, proposed from the beginning.
“If you’re looking for influences, the vast majority of them were clearly in the game before it is at school,” said Bush, with Zi Roberts for a period of three years at Harvard University.
For love of tradition carved on a school for boys and prepare a deep Catholicism instilled by his parents, John Glover Roberts Jr. arrival in Cambridge in the autumn of 1973, even disturbing in itself for a Harvard freshman, his interests, tastes and already the world.
Although it is returned in an environment much more liberal than steel swath of Indiana where he was seen, seven years passed, Roberts at the Harvard Graduate Under-as a student in law and strengthening its views conservative, rather than undermine it. Friends say he seemed to feel comfortably seated separately outside the main campus politics, participation in sport of political debate, but rarely change their views.
As a senior, he explores the thoughts of Daniel Webster, one of 19 eminent century, curator of the entry of his time. In a second year law student, he hesitated its tax class to ask aloud whether the government should move to a Flat Tax.
“There is no doubt, it was more conservative than the professors and most students,” said Donald Scherer, a friend who ate lunch Roberts with most days in the first year students of Jura. “I know of no revelation. He seemed quite consistent. ”
A study of the formative years of the Federal Constitution, the Court of Appeal judges appointed by President Bush succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court of the nation is an important context for two fundamental questions of the judicial commission of Senate will examine whether it is planned to begin confirmation hearings on Tuesday:
Thursday Roberts has recently issued policies years as a legal adviser to two Republican presidents - with strong positions on such issues as abortion volatile, “affirmative action”, equality of treatment between the sexes and the role of religion in public life - reflect his own views or only those of the officials, the rent? And Roberts is quite flexible in their thinking to decide that the issues before the Court opened a fashion?
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