EDITORIAL JUDGING ROBERTS.THOUGH these are nasty, partisan times, we can only hope that next week's hearings on John Roberts' nomination to be chief justice of the United States the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, and Highest judicial officer of the republic. See also: Chief justice will be a civil affair. No one doubts that Roberts is highly qualified for the seat on the Supreme Court, and there are no signs that he lacks the temperament temperament, in music, the altering of certain intervals from their acoustically correct values to provide a system of tuning whereby music can move from key to key without unacceptably impure sonorities. to decide cases fairly and on their merits, as opposed to by any preset preset Cardiac pacing A parameter of a pacemaker that is programmed permanently when manufactured ideology. Still, senators can and should interrogate (1) To search, sum or count records in a file. See query. (2) To test the condition or status of a terminal or computer system. him thoroughly to get a full sense of the man who may well shape American law for the next three decades. Roberts deserves a fair, but tough hearing, in a climate that's as free from partisan politics and posturing as possible. |
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