Just a few minutes into it and I am already very very impressed with John Roberts. Wow, he's a smart man.
Yes indeed. John Roberts is a very smart man. But by his own admission, he is not an originalist or a constitutionalist in the mold of the Founding Fathers. He calls himself, a "modest". Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas aren't modests, and the late CJ William Rehnquist wasn't a modest either.
I think Roberts has done a good job so far in battling FatTed Kennedy and the other liberals on the committee.
However, Roberts answer regarding Romer v Evans case was disappointing. In that Coloardo case, the USSC overruled the will of the voters and said that special rights existed for homosexuals and bisexuals under law. Roberts said, he found nothing immoral about lending assistence to members of his law firm who were handling the case for those militant gay activists involved.
Roberts also said, he respected and admired SCJ Jackson, who was FDR's AG, for his ability to change his mind or opinion on a given issue. As AG Jackson had one set of standards. As a judge, Jackson had another set of standards. Roberts finds that an admiring quality.