The chief justice of the Supreme Court told graduates of Georgetown University Law Center on Tuesday that the law is a way to limit power. “Resolving disputes according to reason embodied in the law can involve a lot more work than leaving it all up to power,” Roberts said in four-minute virtual remarks from the court in Washington. “But limiting power through reason is a rare and special thing in the world, and worth the work.” Supreme Court justices rarely appear in public and Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, is no exception. But he accepted an invitation from Georgetown for the second time, 15 years after he addressed graduates on Healy Lawn. Roberts joked that he was likely asked back because his speech that day was so forgettable that no one remembered it. He then told graduates that the profession they’d chosen to enter does not always offer the most …
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