One Year After Seizure, No Comment From Chief Justice on His Health

July 31, 2008

One year after he suffered a seizure near his summer home in Maine, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. is not commenting on the current state of his health. In his public appearances and on the bench, Roberts has shown no signs of abnormalities in the last year. But the widely publicized episode was disconcerting, and was viewed by commentators as a potentially life-changing event for the chief justice, now 53.