Bush nominates Roberts as chief justice...Raw story...WTF...Chief?

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Bush nominates Roberts as chief justice
Confirmation hearing delayed; Rehnquist funeral Wednesday

Monday, September 5, 2005; Posted: 1:24 p.m. EDT (17:24 GMT)

Supreme Court
John Roberts
George W. Bush
William H. Rehnquist

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/05/roberts.nomination/index.html

Manage Alerts | What Is This? WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Moving quickly to fill the vacancy left by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist's death, President Bush on Monday nominated Judge John Roberts to the nation's top judicial post.

"It is fitting that a great chief justice be followed in office by a person who shared his deep reverence for the Constitution, his profound respect for the Supreme Court and his complete devotion to the cause of justice," Bush said from the White House, with the judge by his side.

"I am honored and humbled by the confidence that the president has shown in me," Roberts said. (Watch nomination and acceptance -- 3:57)

"And I'm very much aware that, if I am confirmed, I would succeed a man that I deeply respect and admire, a man who has been very kind to me for 25 years."
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