We May Get a Conservative Chief Justice

[Chris]

So in other words Roberts is doing his job.

Huh? A political assessment of him is not a legal one.

[Chris]

https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-co...f-justice.html

written in 2005. George bush is a jackass too.

Interesting, it's liberals who dislike the idea of Thomas as Cheif: "Meanwhile, liberals are increasingly apoplectic. They have a hard time even contemplating that Thomas - whom they deride as an intellectual troglodyte who perjured himself regarding Anita Hill in order to get onto the Court -might preside over the world's most powerful judicial body."

Do I detect a hint of racism?

[Private Pickle]

Huh? A political assessment of him is not a legal one.

And his legal assessments aren't political...which is why so-called "Conservatives" want him replaced...

[Calypso Jones]

Interesting, it's liberals who dislike the idea of Thomas as Cheif: "Meanwhile, liberals are increasingly apoplectic. They have a hard time even contemplating that Thomas - whom they deride as an intellectual troglodyte who perjured himself regarding Anita Hill in order to get onto the Court -might preside over the world's most powerful judicial body."

Do I detect a hint of racism?

Libs are all over the place. Notice they didn't have any problems with the man-hoar, drug abusing Marion Barry.

[Calypso Jones]

wiki: grain of salt



The chief justice, like all federal judges, is nominated by the president and confirmed to office by the U.S. Senate. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution specifies that they "shall hold their Offices during good Behavior". This language means that the appointments are effectively for life and that once in office, a justice's tenure ends only when the justice dies, retires, resigns, or is removed from office through the impeachment process. Since 1789, 15 presidents have made a total of 22 official nominations to the position.^[4]


The salary of the chief justice is set by Congress; the current (2019) annual salary is $270,700, which is slightly higher than that of associate justices, which is $258,900.^[5] The practice of appointing an individual to serve as chief justice is grounded in tradition; while the Constitution mandates that there be a chief justice, it is silent on the subject of how one is chosen and by whom. There is no specific constitutional prohibition against using another method to select the chief justice from among those justices properly appointed and confirmed to the Supreme Court.


Three incumbent associate justices have been nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate as chief justice: Edward Douglass White in 1910, Harlan Fiske Stone in 1941, and William Rehnquist in 1986. A fourth, Abe Fortas, was nominated to the position in 1968 but was not confirmed. As an associate justice does not have to resign his or her seat on the court in order to be nominated as chief justice, Fortas remained an associate justice. Similarly, when Associate Justice William Cushing was nominated and confirmed as chief justice in January 1796 but declined the office, he too remained on the court. Two former associate justices subsequently returned to service on the court as chief justice. John Rutledge was the first. President Washington gave him a recess appointment in 1795. However, his subsequent nomination to the office was not confirmed by the Senate, and he left office and the court. In 1930, former Associate Justice Charles Evans Hughes was confirmed as chief justice. Additionally, in December 1800, former Chief Justice John Jay was nominated and confirmed to the position a second time but ultimately declined it, opening the way for the appointment of John Marshall.^[4]

[MMC]

And his legal assessments aren't political...which is why so-called "Conservatives" want him replaced...

According to who?

[The Xl]

Roberts is definitely not a conservative.

[Private Pickle]

According to who?

Conservatives which is why they want to replace him.

Protip: See the title of the thread...

[Chris]

https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-co...f-justice.html

written in 2005. George bush is a jackass too.

Conservatives which is why they want to replace him.

Protip: See the title of the thread...

According to the OP author in 2005 the reasoning was "But Bush will nevertheless pass over Thomas. Why? Because, I believe, he and his advisors will ultimately decide that, ironically, appointing Thomas to be the next Chief Justice would probably disserve their goal of advancing a more conservative agenda at the Court."

Bush was not conservative. Remember all the Democrat thunder he stole from Kennedy?

[Private Pickle]

Roberts is definitely not a conservative.

Heh... Why? Cause he approaches the law from an apolitical standpoint? Buckle up because the Senate is about to confirm another Conservative Justice who has been stating over and over again her politics will not play into her decision making.