CSPAN2 Book TV June 10, 2012
the united states. and remember that roy lundquist did that in the clinton impeachment trial. later, when he was asked what it had amounted to, he says i did nothing in particular, and i did it very well. [laughter] the duties of the chief justice are undefined. much about the supreme court, initially, was undefined. they really had to create itself, and it is done so not in a straight line progression, but it has done so through cases. the cases, in the early years, it had to decide because it had very little discretion over what to hear. the cases these days, they get to choose to ...