John Roberts
John Roberts
John Glover Roberts Jr.is the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States. He took his seat on September 29, 2005, having been nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. He has been described as having a conservative judicial philosophy in his jurisprudence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth27 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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If you look at my record on the question of affirmative action, yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas. Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.
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Foreign law, you can find anything you want. If you don't find it in the decisions of France or Italy, it's in the decisions of Somalia or Japan or Indonesia or wherever.
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Then they had tremendous popular support. This time it is clearer that the high prices are essentially out of the government's control.
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It's because we want him or her to apply the law,
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It's been pretty quiet. I just think the market's going to continue to leak here.
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It's settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis,
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Again, it is the obligation of the courts to decide particular cases, ... Often that means acting on the side of justice as we understand it, enforcing the Bill of Rights, enforcing the equal protection clause.
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I'm not standing for election and it is contrary to the role of judges in our society to say that this judge should go on the bench because this is his or her position and those are the positions they're going to apply,
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I'm not going to consider issues like that in the context as a father, or a husband or anything else.
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That loss has really been driving us. We have been working every day since that point to keep getting better as a team. That game still sticks out in our minds.
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that make this land one of endless possibilities for all Americans.
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It definitely needs to be sorted out, because we lose trading days when our car park is flooded.
I think I have been more forthcoming than any of the other nominees,
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There's a lot of the Midwest and the West in Justice Rehnquist's approach to constitutional law. And by that I mean a recognition that people know pretty well how to govern themselves, that government that is closest to the people is apt to be more responsive to their legitimate concerns and needs.