From a hearty handshake and Trump telling him, 'Thank you, won't forget it' last year to getting bypassed in the handshake line at this year's State of the Union, it's been a long strange trip for Roberts. And yet he wouldn't have it any other way because for Roberts, ritualistic humiliation is a small price to pay for dismantling the Voting Rights Act.
I was surprised because I thought that what we did was No. 1, according to the I mean, I read the paragraphs. I read very well. Great comprehension. I read everything there was to read and I said, We can't lose this case. But we can when judges are political. When they want to be politically correct, when they are catering to a group of people in D.C., maybe. I don't know what is, because when you read it, there's no other interpretation.
Garland's career arc is the stuff of centrist dreams: Harvard summa cum laude, clerkships with Judge Friendly and Justice Brennan, a stint at Arnold & Porter, and a long tenure on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.