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• W2155280296 abstract "When editors of Emory Law Journal invited me to open this symposium on judging, they proposed that reflect on present Chief Justice's widely debated statement of his conception of judging.John Roberts has been both praised and scorned for metaphor he presented to Senate Judiciary Committee at hearing on his confirmation to be Chief Justice of United States: [I]t's my job to call balls and strikes.1 It was an arresting use of language because, unlike so many metaphors that litter discourse in and about law-think of sweeps too broadly or paints with a broad brush-it is not so timeworn that, as George Orwell has noted, original meaning has drained out of it and we are leftonly with a cliche, a ponderous way of saying something that could be said more directly.2 No, here we catch a flash of a pitcher, a catcher, and standing behind him a distinctively shirted official, and a ball hurtling toward batter's head or far off, wide of mark-another cliche, by way. And just because phrase is alive with resonance, it provokes-rather than deadens-thought.Fans applauded because it signaled a restrained, modest, and almost anonymous role for judge. (I recall that, in court on which served, it was custom in discussing a trial judge's ruling almost always to refer to the court, sometimes to superior court judge, but never to judge by name.) Critics balked because metaphor suggests that there is always, at least in principle, an objectively correct call, umpire being only a necessarily imperfect human approximation of what an accurate electronic monitor could settle beyond possibility of dispute-as is done in determining order of finish in a horse race (a photo finish). This conception would make human element-the element of judgment-not a virtue but a regrettable second best.As so often happens, commentary reached a pitch in either direction only because commentators did not bother to read whole statement, bowdlerizing from accounts of others who also had not read whole. Here supply context:Judges and Justices are servants of law, not other way around. are like umpires. Umpires don't make rules, they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure everybody plays by rules, but it is a limited role. ever went to a ball game to see umpire.. . . come before Committee with no agenda. have no are not politicians who can promise to do certain things in exchange for votes. have no agenda, but do have a commitment. If am confirmed, will confront every case with an open mind. will fully and fairly analyze legal arguments that are presented. will be open to considered views of my colleagues on bench, and will decide every case based on record, according to rule of law, without fear or favor, to best of my ability, and will remember that it's my job to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.3Here we catch wider resonance, and it offers much to think-rather than scream-about. First, there is dominant point: judge's role, while important, is subordinate. He enforces rules, but he does not make them. That is first and crucial antithesis.Related to Roberts's dominant point, though not quite same, is last antithesis-to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat. Here Roberts calls attention to difference not between a judge and legislator-rule applier and rule maker-but between a player and rule enforcer; only former can be said to win or lose. This connects to Roberts's most striking and substantive commitment: I come before Committee with no agenda. have no platform. This stands in contrast to those who do make rules and are contestants: Judges are not politicians. Finally, and most fetchingly, is a phrase that represents very epitome of judicial modesty: Nobody ever went to a ball game to see umpire. …" @default.
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