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
society facts hints
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
winning guy littles
If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy is going to win in court before me, ... But if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well, then the big guy is going to win because my obligation is to the Constitution.
race way discrimination
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
kings law people
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
thinking views law
I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It's the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.
government abuse ordinary
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
priorities dying three
Pretty much everybody knows there are not enough organs for all of those patients who need to get transplants, and what happens is, is that organs are actually directed in liver transplantation to those patients who are the sickest. So the patients who have the greatest chance of dying in the next three months or so are the ones who get the priority for the liver transplant.
independent needs sometimes
The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.
thinking lawyer audience
I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.
answer question
Well, Senator, I can't answer that question in the abstract,
legal
Well, senator, as a legal matter, it is abstract,
assertion bland drafted ignore matter response truth
We should ignore that assertion in any event, ... as well as the assertion that the EEOC is 'un-American,' the truth of the matter notwithstanding. I have drafted a deliberately bland response for your signature.
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I think the markets would be a little upset if they thought it would be World War III that would drag Congress to a halt but this does not appear to be that kind of scenario,
shocking third
This would be shocking even in a Third World country.