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Posted: Sat 16:41, 03 Aug 2013 Post subject: the great Supreme Court reporter |
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The Nerve of John Roberts Andrew Cohen Nov 28 2012,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 11:36 AM ET Tweet More Email Print The chief justice calls out the executive branch for doing precisely what the Supreme Court has done during his own tenure.Joshua Roberts/ReutersJohn G. Roberts, Jr.,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the chief justice of the United States, snapped at a Justice Department lawyer Tuesday during oral argument -- a rare display of anger and annoyance from a jurist who made a name for himself in Washington by being consistently courteous and courtly. Evidently, the chief justice wasn't happy with the way the federal lawyer was trying to gloss over a policy change within the executive branch. Here's how Tony Mauro, the great Supreme Court reporter, described the action for the National Law Journal:Duringroutine arguments in an ERISA health insurance case titled US Airways v. McCutchen,Roberts zeroed in on footnote 9 in thegovernment's brief, which described a position taken in previous ERISAcases by Bush Administration Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and then statedthat
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