Senator Schumer: I want to know how you think, not what you think I should think you think. I think. So let me ask you a parallel question, on the DC Court are you a mainstream conservative or a rabid dog like Rehnquist?
Roberts: Judges don't think of themselves as being in one ideological spectrum
Interruption from Schumer: Judge Rehnquist did.
Roberts: Well I do not.
Schumer: Lets get to modesty then, can you give me a few cases that were modest, and some immodest?
Roberts goes on to eloquently reply with such decisions.
Schumer: Then if the decision of one court was immodest, then another court could change it with a modest one?
Roberts tries to make him understand that LAW is still paramount.
Schumer: Can you weigh modesty & immodesty then and tell me how much we weigh?
Roberts: Sits stunned and tries to talk about the law.
Schumer gets back to opinions that Roberts wrote that he disagrees with. Especially the old memos that were written 20-25 years ago. "Can you tell me why your language is not modest or did you not have modesty then?
Roberts answers that things he wrote as council have nothing to do with his modesty as a judge.
Senator Schumer: Just assure me and some others that modesty isn't something you use when you want to slow things down and modesty is what you are as a person not as a thinker but as someone who doesn't have to think about modesty because that would be immodest but as someone who is modest enough to act modest and not be immodest by not answering questions because they seemed too immodest?
Roberts answers that the law (you silly brainless twerp) REMAINS paramount to everything and being modest means interpretation not legislation.
Committee is adjourned for the day as everyone exits shaking their heads.
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