With Bush’s nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, everyone has an opinion. I went to bed early last night and in the last 10 hours the amount of commentary already written about the new SCOTUS nominee is incredible.

Here’s video of the announcement, and a full transcript.

Here is the Washington Post profile of Mr. Roberts written a few days ago.

Roberts grew up in Long Beach, Ind., and attended a private school in nearby LaPorte before going on to Harvard and Harvard Law School. He clerked for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, in New York, and later for Rehnquist, who was then an associate justice.

After that, he worked as a special assistant to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith and as an aide to White House counsel Fred Fielding — who also mentored Luttig — during the Reagan administration.

Roberts joined the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson in 1986, then went into President George H.W. Bush’s administration, arguing cases before the Supreme Court as Solicitor General Kenneth W. Starr’s principal deputy. He was nominated to the D.C. Circuit in 1992, but the appointment died when Bill Clinton succeeded Bush as president. Roberts returned to Hogan & Hartson, where he headed the firm’s appellate practice and frequently argued before the Supreme Court. President Bush nominated him to the D.C. Circuit two years ago.

From Scripps Howard last night is another article worth reading.

Michelle Malkin starts the day with an extensive roundup.

The Powerline guys weigh in here. Here’s what John Hinderaker has to say:

Pop the champagne corks, conservatives. Roberts is a fantastic choice, a brilliant and bulletproof conservative. And it was fun to see Pat Leahy and Chuck Schumer on television tonight; they looked just awful. After President Bush’s terrific, upbeat presentation of Roberts, and Roberts’ graceful, brief talk, Leahy and Schumer sounded like they had just dropped in from another planet. They were dour, hateful, and came across as sad and pathetic minions who have been sent on a hopeless mission by their bosses at “People for the American Way.”

It’s a great day for conservatives and for America. Thanks to President Bush for nominating the best person for the job–or, certainly, one of the best people, along with McConnell, Luttig and one or two others–rather than taking the easy, politically correct way out.

Blogs for Bush:

I think Bush made a great choice. By nominating Judge Roberts, the conservative base is galvanized, and while we’ll see some grandstanding from the Democrats, they won’t be able to block this nominee. Conservatives are happy tonight. The American people and the Constitution are also big winners tonight.

And there’s a great sound bite list of updates on blogger reactions at B4B as well.

Anthony Surace says:

Roberts is a solid constructionist and it’s going to be hard for the Democrats to find any good reason to filibuster him. My prediction: Roberts will be confirmed with over 75 votes.

The reactions from the left are being tracked by Dave Johnston. It’s funny to see that the reaction of many is that this is a diversion from Rove’s “problems.” Here’s a Roberts / Iran Contra link attempt.

The more official reactions from the likes of Dick Durbin and Howard Dean are predictable.

“The president had an opportunity to unite the country with his Supreme Court nomination, to nominate an individual in the image of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Instead, by putting forward John Roberts’ name, President Bush has chosen a more controversial nominee and guaranteed a more controversial confirmation process.”

“It is disappointing that when President Bush had the chance to bring the country together, he instead turned to a nominee who may have impressive legal credentials, but also has sharp partisan credentials that cannot be ignored.”

VikingPundit is glad Bush picked based on merit and disregarded race or gender.

Neophyte Pundit thinks it was a pretty good move since Schumer, Leahy and Durbin are upset. He also points out, as others have, that it will hard to filibuster as extraordinary circumstance someone who was overwhelming confirmed recently.

Wizbang got some mention on Inside Politics and Connected Coast to Coast for their coverage of bloggers’ role in the nomination process.

Hugh Hewitt is happy with the pick, and takes Chuck Schumer to task.

Schumer is telegraphing the strategy of the hard-left Democratic Senaors: To ask question after question which a nominees will not and should not answer, and then to oppose confirmation on the basis of these refusals. That will not fly with the few not-hard left Democratic senators who are left, and certainly not with those up for re-election. If a filibuster is attempted, the constitutional option will not be used because it will not be needed.

SCOTUSblog has a law blogger roundup.

Sister Toldjah points to this profile at Indpendent Judiciary.

Captain Ed has a roundup of editorial responses.

The selection of John Roberts appears to have stunned editorial writers in the four largest cities. Their entries today heralding this new judiciary battle show a healthy dose of caution and calls for a dignified process. Most of them tip their hat to Bush’s political skills, noting the difficulty for Democrats to deal with the thin paper trail of Roberts, but still point out potential land mines for his confirmation.

Ed also points out what he thinks are the two biggest hurdles that Roberts will face:

[T]he LAT finds the two issues I think will likely be the biggest hurdles of his confirmation, apart from Roe: his membership in the Federalist Society and his recent vote upholding military tribunals for terrorist detainees at Gitmo and elsewhere. Given the recent histrionics in the Senate involving Gitmo, I expect the latter will give Democrats not just an opportunity to beat up Roberts, but to use him as a proxy to grandstand against the Bush administration on the war.

Volokh has a list of groups that opposed Roberts in 2003.

OTB has another good roundup. And Joe Gandelman has an enormous list of links and quotes. And finally, for now, check out NZ’s topic page for Roberts.

And with that, I’m signing off for a while.