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
John Roberts quotes about
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It is not a process under which senators get to say, 'I want you to rule this way and this way and this way, and if you'll tell me that you'll rule this way and this way and this way, I'll vote for you, ... That's not a bargaining process. Judges are not politicians. They cannot promise to do certain things in exchange for votes.
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It is not enough that you may think a prior decision is wrongly decided,
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Like most people, I resist the labels. I have told people, when pressed, that I prefer to be known as a modest judge. And, to me, that means some of the things that you talked about in those other labels. It means an appreciation that the role of the judge is limited; the judge is to decide the cases before them; they're not to legislate; they're not to execute the laws.
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Late this August, MALDEF announced its opposition to Judge Roberts.
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I will be my own man on the Supreme Court, period,
philosophy uniform
I think I'd have to say that I don't have an overarching, uniform philosophy.
I think I have been more forthcoming than any of the other nominees,
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It definitely needs to be sorted out, because we lose trading days when our car park is flooded.
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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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Judges do not have a commission to solve society's problems, ... their role, while important, is limited.
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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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Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them.
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Judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them,
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Judge Roberts, the legal automaton, as opposed to Judge Roberts, the man.