WASHINGTON — When John Roberts told the Senate in 2005 that judges should be like umpires, applying the rules of others, he added a touch of judicial modesty: “Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.”
On Jan. 20, the same might be said of Roberts himself: None of the millions of people gathering for Barack Obama’s historic inauguration will be there to see the chief justice as he administers the oath.
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