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While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics
Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Big 5 stealing liberal justices' lunch money Sep 26, 2010
This court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a (constitutional) court that he is 'actually' innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged 'actual innocence' is constitutionally cognizable
Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Testing the fairness of U.S. law Jul 18, 2010
Your decision to retire saddens each of us in distinct ways
Justice Stevens bids colleagues goodbye Jun 28, 2010
I cannot agree with the court's conclusion that the Constitution permits the government to prosecute the plaintiffs criminally for engaging in coordinated teaching and advocacy furthering the designated organizations' lawful political objectives
Supreme Court upholds anti-terror statute Jun 21, 2010
To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I'm not sure why we are there
Roberts: State of the Union 'pep rally' Mar 10, 2010
John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States. He has served since 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.
Roberts grew up in northern Indiana and was educated in a private school before attending Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review. After being admitted to the bar, he served as a law clerk for William Rehnquist before taking a position in the Attorney General's office during the Reagan Administration. He went on to serve the Reagan Administration and the George H. W. Bush administration in the Department of Justice and the Office of the White House Counsel, before spending fourteen years in private law practice. During this time, he argued thirty-nine cases before the Supreme Court.
In 2003, he was appointed as a judge of the D.C. Circuit by President George W. Bush, where he served until his nomination to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. When Chief Justice Rehnquist died before Roberts's confirmation hearings, Bush renominated Roberts to fill the newly vacant center seat.