Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett
Richard Garnett C.B.was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologistand assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum, i.e. what is now the British Library...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 February 1835
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Through most of our history a lot of Americans would have been freaked out by the idea of more than one, ... For a long time there was the one Catholic seat and one Jewish seat.
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Even if the president wasn't up to it in alligators and his approval rating was 90 percent, John Roberts simply is the best guy for the chief justice's job. I think the thought of having John Roberts join him on the court kept the chief going despite his cancer. I think he's probably smiling about it now.
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He loves the court, ... So he must have felt, 'If I can stay on the job with a reasonable expectation I can maintain my health, then why not.'
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he's not going to be a pushover or a shrinking violet.
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It's been awhile since the Supreme Court had any new members, ... And one thing we've seen is that when the Court gets a new member, no matter what that member's views are, it sometimes tends to change the dynamics. When Justice Thomas came on the Court, Justice Souter started voting differently.
airs
There are no airs about this guy, no pretension,