Obama Cites John Roberts’ Praise of Garland

“His habit, to borrow a phrase from former Justice John Paul Stevens, of understanding before disagreeing and then disagreeing without being disagreeable. It speaks to his ability to persuade, to respond to the concerns of others with sound arguments and airtight logic.

As his former colleague on the D.C. Circuit and our current chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, once said, any time Judge Garland disagrees, you know you’re in a difficult area. At the same time, Chief Judge Garland is more than just a brilliant legal mind, he’s someone who has a keen understanding that justice is about more than abstract legal theory, more than some footnote in a dusty casebook.”