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Yesterday's late-breaking news of Chief Justice John Roberts' epileptic seizure warranted a follow-up on all three newscasts. He had another attack once before, in 1993, and so medical sources told NBC's Pete Williams that "having two seizures means Roberts is likely to have more" yet without any impact on his professional capacity. ABC's Jan Crawford Greenburg (no link) expected him to restart a course of anti-seizure medication, a drug that back then prevented him from driving a car: "Doctors do not know why that seizure occurred…just like they do not know why the one occurred yesterday." At the White House, CBS' Jim Axelrod put this minor health problem for the 52-year-old Chief Justice in perspective, running through the serious afflictions suffered by William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, William Brennan, William Douglas. "Something else that may work in Roberts' favor--in the past 20 years the annual caseload at the Supreme Court has been cut in half."
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