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The Origins of John Roberts
Roberts begins as an appellate lawyer doing precedent. Then he's a lower court judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. And what do you do? Press and press and press because you're not allowed to overturn Supreme Court case law precedent. Only gradually does John Roberts begin to emerge, especially in this case as an originalist.