{"id":5164,"date":"2005-09-05T10:24:56","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T14:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2005-09-05T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T14:24:56","slug":"roberts-gets-promoted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/roberts-gets-promoted\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts gets promoted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the unlikely event you haven&#8217;t heard, John Roberts is no longer Bush&#8217;s nominee to replace Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor &#8212; now he&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s nominee to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/09\/05\/roberts.nomination\/index.html\">replace William Rehnquist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush on Monday nominated Judge John Roberts to succeed the late William H. Rehnquist as chief justice of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Bush said from the White House, with the judge by his side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First thought: Antonin Scalia, who&#8217;d been rumored to want the slot, must be at home pretty annoyed right now.<\/p>\n<p>Second thought: I heard a rumor late yesterday that Alberto Gonzales is, again, Bush&#8217;s top choice for the high court. Will the GOP base go for this? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/09\/04\/AR2005090401338.html\">Apparently not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the unlikely event you haven&#8217;t heard, John Roberts is no longer Bush&#8217;s nominee to replace Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor &#8212; now he&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s nominee to replace William Rehnquist. President Bush on Monday nominated Judge John Roberts to succeed the late William H. Rehnquist as chief justice of the United States. &#8220;It is fitting that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}