What Makes Chief Justice Roberts Lose His Cool
Listen to the exchange that made the Supreme Court's even-tempered chief justice flare up during oral argument.
February 26, 2018 at 11:33 AM
4 minute read
The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
Since his days as a top Supreme Court advocate in the 1990s and early 2000s, he has been known as a calm, even-tempered voice at the court. Asked in 2000 why he was not more impassioned in his delivery, he told this reporter, “Impassioned rhetoric doesn't work with the Supreme Court. If it did, I'd become impassioned.”
Now in his thirteenth year as chief justice, Roberts has mostly kept that reputation.
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