United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is our highest ranking judge, but probably not our best known. Supreme Courtship: A Novel Forty-five years ago, United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered a remarkable lecture at the New York University Law Center. Introdu...
Department of Criminal JusticeSpringer-VerlagAmerican Journal of Criminal JusticeCall, J. E. (2010). The Roberts Court and police practices: the impact of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito in police practices cases. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 35 , 236–249....
Roberts and other conservative Supreme Court justices were thesubject of protests, some at their homes, after theMay leakof the court's decision that ultimatelystripped awayconstitutional protections for abortion. Justice Samuel Alito has said that the leak made conservative justices "targ...
LINCOLN, Neb. - Chief Justice John Roberts expressed concern today over the bitter partisanship gripping Washington, saying two sitting justices who sailed to confirmation would never make it through the Senate today. In a speech at the University of Nebraska College of Law, Roberts...
Recusal decisions are made by each individual justice, and in his letter to Durbin and Whitehouse, Roberts pointed them to Alito's letter addressing his continued participation in election and Jan. 6-related cases. The chief justice last fielded a request to answer lawmakers' questions in...
Chief Justice Roberts goes on to stress the great historical importance of judicial integrity. The same is not true of judges. In deciding cases, a judge is not to follow the preferences of his supporters, or provide any special consi...
Roberts has the demeanor and decency of a great chief justice. Despite those strengths, however, some are now wondering if he has the drive and determination to confront his colleagues on a worsening situation at the court. Many years ago, I believed that Roberts erred in failing to publicly...
More than a decade after he was first appointed, Roberts does not appear to be the justice he was first made out to be. That could prove pivotal in the next few years, as any of several justices may retire. We could soon see a Roberts Court in more ways than one: with him as both...
Named to the court by President Bush in 2005, Roberts is the youngest justice on a court in which the senior member, John Paul Stevens, is 87. Bush was informed of the hospitalization by his chief of staff, Josh Bolten, the White House said. ...
Roberts started his legal career with two clerkships in federal courts. First, he clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then he clerked for Justice Rehnquist (whom he would eventually replace) on the Supreme Court. Roberts stayed in Washington, D.C. after thi...