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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unprecedented attempt by Congress to structure the office of the president.
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We have had a bearish week in U.S. markets and people who had thought the range in rates would hold are now re-evaluating that view as the evidence points to a stronger U.S. economy.
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We didn't want to end like last year. I wanted to get through for them.
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There are many areas where it appears I knew a lot more when I was 25 than I know now, when I'm 50, ... I certainly wouldn't write everything today as I wrote it back then, but I don't think any of us would do things or write things today as we did when we were 25 and had all the answers.
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would be easy to meet in most cases.
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It is settled as a precedent of the court,
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It reaffirmed the central holding in Roe v. Wade.
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Conservative distaste for the growing influence of courts in society suggests the development of alternatives to litigation which are less dependent on the fiat of unelected judges, ... cheaper, quicker and more responsive than court litigation.
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The notion that that was my view is totally inconsistent and rebutted by my life. I married a lawyer. I was raised with three sisters who work outside the home. I have a daughter for whom I will insist at every turn that she has equal citizenship rights with her brother.
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So far, it has been a pretty wild ride.
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has adopted this siege mentality in which the best way to deflect the question is to attack the questioner. I'm not quite sure who he's playing to -- maybe the segment of the Republican Party that believes we're a bunch of liberals who have our own agenda.
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I think it is a jolt to the legal system when you overturn precedent. ... It is not enough that you may think that a prior decision was wrongly decided,
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When a liver becomes cirrhotic, those are the common complications. We see that the patients have bleeding from their stomach and intestines. They have abdomens that become full of fluid. Their ankles swell with the same type of fluid, and they also can become confused and not themselves. Those are kind of the main things that we see when people get end-stage liver disease and have cirrhosis.
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Sometimes it’s just surreal out there, while you’re running a marathon. People just standing out in the cold, even the rain, cheering for you, blasting music for you. It’s an awesome show of camaraderie and community.