I was sitting in the court waiting room with a few other attorneys today watching the Senate Judiciary committee interview John Roberts. It was fairly predictable stuff. Roberts was perhaps a slight bit more supportive of the "Right to Privacy" and the effect of precedence than I would have anticipated, but not by much. He was expecting questions of this sort, and since it was Republican Arlen Spector (who is pro choice) asking them, it was highly likely that both the questions and answers had been scripted in advance. I expect some intense grilling on the White House interpretation of the Patriot Act, but the abortion issue has been effectively diffused. I'm sure that some Democratic Senators will look for a few chinks in this guy's armor, but I don't think they will find much.

One thing people should realize is that the person who was probably next in line for Chief Justice was Antonin Scalia. It's my understanding that he had been lobbying for the role for the past year, and that Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate Minority Leader, had already said that in principal he could approve of Scalia in that role. Bush's decision to nominate Roberts not only for Justice position, but for the Chief Justice position, is in my mind a slap in Scalia's face.

But anyway, the few other attorneys were of one mind that Robert's selection was pretty much a done deal.

There was however, one burning question on my mind and on the mind of the other attorneys, a question that sharply divided us and was source of some contention. Does this guy have a hairpiece of not?