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Sen. Herb Kohl questions Judge Roberts on Brown, saying that the judges there were not umpires calling balls and breaks...but, instead, broke new ground themselves.

Roberts replies that the Brown decision is more consistent with the original understanding of the 14th amendment than Plessy.

Kohl asks about judges bringing their life experiences to the bench; do judges operate as automatons?

Roberts: "Not as automatons...but the ideal in the American justice system" is self-abnegation -- not "individuals promoting their own particular views, but they're supposed to do their best to interpret the law according to their constitution."

Posted by Marc Ambinder | 02:52 PM