Chief Justice John Roberts in Hospital After Seizure

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Why wasn't his medical condition disclosed during confirmation?

Chief Justice in Hospital After Seizure
WASHINGTON Jul 30, 2007 - John Roberts, 52, the youngest member of the Supreme Court, was on vacation in Maine.

Chief Justice John Roberts was taken by ambulance to a hospital on Monday after a fall at his home in Maine, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said. Roberts has a summer home in Port Clyde, Maine. The spokeswoman said the chief justice, 52, was taken to the hospital as a precaution.

She said she did not know how he fell or what injuries he might have suffered. Roberts, named to the court by President Bush in 2005, has no known medical conditions. He is the youngest justice on a court in which the senior member, John Paul Stevens, is 87. Roberts is the father of two young children.

He bought the home on Hupper Island off Port Clyde last year. Port Clyde is about 90 miles by car northeast of Portland, midway up the coast of Maine. Roberts spent a couple of weeks in Europe in July, teaching a course in Vienna and attending a conference in Paris. He was at the court late last week.

ABC News: Roberts Taken to Hospital After Fall

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Granny says, "Dis oughta give him apoplexy...

Bill would OK cameras in Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2007 -- A divided U.S. Senate committee approved a measure that would allow public U.S. Supreme Court proceedings to be televised despite jurists' misgivings.

A separate measure that would allow TV coverage at federal trial and appellate court proceedings was withdrawn after opposition from both Democrats and Republicans, CNN said. Several justices reportedly expressed opposition to television coverage. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the bill that would allow cameras in the Supreme Court courtroom on an 11-7 vote. The measure now goes to the full Senate.

Under provisions of the bill, the Supreme Court must allow television coverage of open sessions unless justices decide by majority vote that coverage of a particular case would violate a party's legal rights. "With a governmental process you should err on the side of openness," said one sponsor, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

Criticizing the measure, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said, "The Supreme Court doesn't tell us how to run our business, and we shouldn't tell them how to run their business." Feinstein cited objections from several justices, including Anthony Kennedy's remarks that cameras would provide "an insidious temptation for justices to get a sound bite on the evening news."

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