John Roberts In Brief

Good article from Legal Times (via Law.com). Of particular interest to Commerce Clause junkies:

Roberts also displayed what some viewed as insouciance toward arroyo toads in a 2003 case, Rancho Viejo v. Norton. Roberts wanted the full D.C. Circuit to reconsider a panel's decision that upheld a Fish and Wildlife Service regulation protecting the toads under the Endangered Species Act. Roberts said there could be no interstate commerce rationale for protecting the toad, which, he said, "for reasons of its own lives its entire life in California."

As an initial matter, it seems like the President picked a rather consensus conservative. Hopefully he'll reach a bit more when the Chief Justice finally does retire. I'm rooting for Janice Rogers Brown.