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Annals of Law: No More Mr. Nice Guy: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/25/090525fa_fact_toobin

Fulbright and Hogan & Hartson
"John Roberts: The Supreme Court’s stealth hard-liner." (by Jeffrey Toobin)
John Roberts and conservative activism
No More Mr. Nice Guy The Supreme Court’s stealth hard-liner. by Jeffrey Toobin
So much for candor at confirmation hearings.
When John G. Roberts, Jr., emerges from behind the red curtains and takes his place in the middle of the Supreme Court bench, he usually wears a pair of reading glasses, which he peers over to see the lawyers arguing before him. It’s an old-fashioned look for the Chief Justice of the United States, who is fifty-four, but, even with the glasses, there’s no mistaking that Roberts is the youngest person on the Court. (John Paul Stevens, the senior Associate Justice, who sits to Roberts’s right, is thirty-five years older.) Roberts’s face is unlined, his shoulders are broad and athletic, and only a few wisps of gray hair mark him as changed in any way from the judge who charmed the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing, in 2005.
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"In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff. Even more than Scalia, who has embodied judicial conservatism during a generation of service on the Supreme Court, Roberts has served the interests, and reflected the values, of the contemporary Republican Party."