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Chief Justice John Roberts taken to hospitalJuly 30, 2007Washington, DC - Chief Justice John Roberts was taken to a hospital Monday morning as a precaution after falling at his summer home in Maine. 
Roberts was conscious after the fall, which happened at his vacation home near Port Clyde, Maine, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said. Arberg said she did not know how Roberts fell or what injuries he might have suffered. Roberts was appointed by President Bush and has served as chief justice since September 2005. He has no known medical conditions. At 52, he is the youngest of the high court's nine justices. Roberts served on the influential federal appellate court for the District of Columbia before being nominated to the Supreme Court after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Sources close to the chief justice said Roberts suffered an unexplained seizure in 1993, soon after his first nomination to the D.C. circuit stalled in the Senate. Friends blamed the seizure on stress from the confirmation fight, and Roberts limited certain activities such as driving after it happened. But after a few weeks, the problem went away, and he has since not suffered any health crises, the sources said. © AlaskaReport News |
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