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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No, I don't think there is. Sometimes it's hard to give meaning to a constitutional term in a particular case. But you don't look to your own values and beliefs. You look outside yourself to other sources. This is the basis for ? you know, judges wear black robes because it doesn't matter who they are as individuals. That's not going to shape their decision. It's their understanding of the law that will shape their decision.
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I am honoured and humbled by the confidence the president has shown in me.
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I think I'd have to say that I don't have an overarching, uniform philosophy.
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Judges do not have a commission to solve society's problems, ... their role, while important, is limited.
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been able to make progress in the area of rights, and not had just empty paper promises.
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Before you begin, let's make sure we even have a case, ... Your appeal was filed late, right?
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That is an area, I think, the court can redouble its efforts to come to some consistency in its approach,
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An administrator can define the rules without the need to do any programming.
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That is a precedent entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis like any other precedent of the court.
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On the other hand, simple disagreement about whether it's an appropriate issue for the public to see would not strike me as a very compelling governmental interest,
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She will say what people want to hear in order to win. That's her history. She is just a craven, cynical, hypocritical politician.
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allows the judge to incorporate his or her own personal preferences, cloak them with the authority of precedent -- because they're finding precedent in foreign law -- and use that to determine the meaning of the Constitution.
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It's one of those things I think is difficult to put yourself in that position and say, well, with any degree of confidence, if I were suffering and confronting the end of life, this is what I would want to do,
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Anything you say can and will be used against you.