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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It was my job to articulate the administration policy,
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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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The court has . . . recognized that personal privacy is a component of the liberty protected by the due process clause, ... The court has explained that the liberty protected is not limited to freedom from physical restraint, and that it's protected not simply procedurally, but as a substantive matter as well.
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The court has explained that the liberty protected is not limited to freedom from physical restraint.
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The court has developed a series of precedents on precedent. I do think that it is a jolt to the system when you overrule a precedent.
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The case itself is still pending, I don't think it's appropriate for me to address that.
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the humility to recognize that they operate within a system of precedent.
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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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You've got people thinking the Fed is basically on hold again. We still have uncertainty in the Middle East and the uncertainty in the stock market. Both of those things lend to a steeper curve.
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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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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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Their official date to return is now June 5, but they will probably return a few weeks earlier to get the accumulated leave time that is due to them,
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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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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.