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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could be instantly reversed when a new administration took office.
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I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,
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it has to be in the context of the case . . . they don't have a license to go out and decide, 'I think this is an injustice and so I'm going to do something to fix it.'
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Over 35 percent of our customers run Microsoft Windows Server.
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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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Judges are umpires. I will remember it is my job to call balls and strikes, and not pitch or bat.
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Students and faculty are free to associate to voice their disapproval of the military's message.
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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'll be bound to follow the Supreme Court precedent regardless of what type of constructionist I might be,
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She said, It's not correct for me to comment. Now, there's a reason for that.
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The exact scope of it, both the beginning and the end, are issues coming before the court, and I don't think I should go further.
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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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I tend to take a more practical and pragmatic approach to things, rather than a theoretical or ideological approach, ... But I do think when it gets into an area where the correctness or incorrectness or my agreement or disagreement with a particular precedent is in an area that is likely to come before the court or could well come before the court, I do have to draw the line there. ... My views on the cases that I think are not likely to come before the court, I'm perfectly willing to discuss.
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but if you don't have compassion, then how can you really be a leader of the American people?