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February 11, 2008

Coming up: Chief Justice Roberts to visit Providence

PROVIDENCE -- U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts is slated to visit Rhode Island tomorrow for a celebration of the federal courthouse in downtown Providence.

Roberts’ visit will highlight a yearlong centennial celebration of the five-story gray granite building, which was built between 1904 and 1908 as the Providence Post Office, Court House and Custom House.

Governor Carcieri is scheduled to be at the celebration, from 11 to 11:50 a.m. The governor's schedule also shows a noon to 2 p.m. federal courthouse centennial celebration luncheon at Cafe Nuovo, One Citizens Plaza, in Providence.

The Journal has reported that it will be the first time a sitting chief justice has come to Rhode Island since Charles Evan Hughes was here in 1937.

Yet Roberts' visit won't be the last by a sitting justice of the nation's highest court this year. Justice Antonin Scalia is scheduled to visit the Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol in April.

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 7:10 PM | Permalink

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