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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Opposition to quotas is not opposition to civil rights,
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a judge's judicial work is not influenced...by his sense, sharp or vague, of where justice lies in respect to the great issues of his time.
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Promotion of the National Motto is apparently the foundation's next step.
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Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,
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This is a credit to your students, athletes, administrators, staff and community for demonstrating such positive sportsmanship throughout the entire year.
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delivered what may have been the shortest opening statement by a modern Supreme Court nominee less than seven minutes, including the thank-yous and two baseball metaphors.
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And I'm very much aware that, if I am confirmed, I would succeed a man that I deeply respect and admire, a man who has been very kind to me for 25 years.
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The Framers were not the sort of people, having fought a revolution to get the right of self-government, to sit down and say, 'Let's take all the difficult issues before us and let's have the judges decide them.'
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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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And I'm very much aware that if I am confirmed, I would succeed a man I deeply respect and admire, a man who has been very kind to me for 25 years,
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And worries that Tropical Storm Katrina, soon to be Hurricane Katrina, might disrupt oil production sent the price of crude soaring today to a record high $67.32 a barrel.
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the next nomination will be a good deal more contentious.
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appreciate the difference in institutional competence between the legislature and the courts.