Bush picks Roberts for chief justice
6th Sep 2005, 08:27 GMT
WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday nominated Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to become the 17th chief justice of the United States, moving quickly to have the man he first tapped to serve as an associate justice instead succeed Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died Saturday.
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