We have a real treat for you today.
A major highlight of last week’s AJEI Summit was a surprise appearance by Chief Justice Roberts, who dropped in on our Thursday-night reception.
In person, the Chief is ever so dreamy, though perhaps not quite as tall as you might have expected.
(Shortness is endemic in appellate
Chief Justice Roberts has a well-deserved reputation as a stellar oral advocate. In Bryan Garner’s words, the oral arguments he gave during his days at Hogan were “generally breathakingly good.”
Or as Miguel Estrada once put it, the “G” in John G. Roberts stands for “God.”
In 2006 and 2007, Bryan Garner interviewed seven members