USA: Judiciary: Chief Justice US Supreme Court sworn in, again on Monday

Yes, it's official now. After a 70-something vote out of 100, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. If you want to see what any particular Senator did when his name was called, you can check out the Senate Roll Call Vote on Roberts.

Buzz has it that of the 12 nay-sayers, including Hilary Clinton, all are dependent upon the financial contributions of wealthy radical leftwingers like George Soros and Barbra Streisand, and also upon the membership of the radical groups who besides financial contributions often donate their hate-Bush services as volunteers in poiitical campaigns.

With hindsite, we can now say, bracing ourselves, that the real battle is coming around the President's next appointment to the Court to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Conner. She has given notice of her desire to leave the bench as soon as the President nominates and the Senate confirms her replacement. We can expect Pres. Bush to name that new member of the Court rather soon. Tomorrow? Next week?

Undoubtedly, there will be another round of organizational fever both Yes and No to that second nominee to the Supreme Court, a very fallible process among the citizenry and within the news-and-opinion media to be sure. But compare that democratic process in the American Republic to what happens in Canada with the kingpin Prime Minister making all the appointments with no confirmation vote and no hearings and no public slugfest, where a Supreme Court Justice does not go into office with a Bang, but with a whimper and the public be damned.

I prefer the American way. - Owlb