When he was nominated as the seventeenth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John G. Roberts characterized the judicial role in a modest and unassuming fashion: “Judges and Justices are servants of the law, not the other way around.” Indeed, he went so far as to analogize the role of judges to that of “umpires:” “Umpires don’t make the rules; they apply them. The role of an umpire and a judge is critical. They make sure every-body plays by the rules . . . .”