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John G Roberts Jr

John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the seventeenth and current Chief Justice of the United States. Roberts previously was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, spent 14 years in private law practice and held positions in Republican administrations in the U.S. Department of Justice and Office of the White House Counsel.

Personal life, education, and memberships

Roberts was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 1955, son of John G. Roberts and Rosemary Podrasky. His father was an executive with Bethlehem Steel. When Roberts was in second grade, his family moved to the affluent beachside town of Long Beach, Indiana. He grew up in a devoutly Roman Catholic, upper middle-class home along with three sisters: Kathy, Peggy and Barb. Roberts graduated first in his high school class of 1973 from La Lumiere School, a Catholic boarding school in LaPorte, Indiana. He studied six years of Latin and some French, and was known for his devotion to his studies. He was also captain of his football team, where he referred to himself as a "slow-footed linebacker." He also wrestled, participated in choir and drama, co-edited the school newspaper, and served on the athletic council and the Executive Committee of the Student Council. Following high school, Roberts entered Harvard University as a sophomore. Roberts spent his summers working in a steel mill to help pay for college. While a student at Harvard, he won the William Scott Ferguson award for his essay, Marxism and Bolshevism: Theory and Practice. He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude in 1976. Roberts then attended Harvard Law School, where he served as managing editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated magna cum laude in 1979. Roberts is currently a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, the American Law Institute, the Edward Coke Appellate American Inn of Court and the National Legal Center for the Public Interest. He serves on the Federal Appellate Rules Advisory Committee. Roberts's name is listed in the Federalist Society's 1997-1998 "Leadership Directory," though he has denied ever being a member. Roberts is married to [http://www.pillsburylaw.com/cgi-bin/bvisapi.dll/portal/ep/profDetail.do?bio=50166&BV_SessionID=@@@@1778530211.1127773438@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccfaddfkhhjmelcgeicggldhkjdfho.0 Jane (Sullivan) Roberts], a lawyer and former legal counsel for Feminists for Life. They live in the Washington, DC suburb of Bethesda, Maryland where they are members of a Roman Catholic parish led by noted conservative Msgr. Peter Vaghi. The Robertses adopted two infants in 2000: Josephine ("Josie") and Jack Roberts. Jack's dancing during Bush's White House introduction of his father brought the four-year-old international media attention. Josie and Jack attend a private Catholic school run by Opus Dei.

Private Practice

After graduating from law school, Roberts served as a law clerk for Judge Henry Friendly on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for one year. From 1980 to 1981, he served as a law clerk to then-Associate Justice William Rehnquist on the United States Supreme Court. From 1981 to 1982, he served in the Reagan administration as a Special Assistant to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith. From 1982 to 1986, Roberts served as Associate Counsel to the President under White House Counsel Fred Fielding . Roberts entered private law practice in 1986 as an associate at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Hogan & Hartson, but left to serve in the first Bush administration as Principal Deputy Solicitor General, from 1989 to 1993. Roberts has argued 39 cases for the government before the Supreme Court, prevailing in 25 of them. He represented 18 states in United States v. Microsoft. In 1992, George H.W. Bush nominated Roberts to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but no Senate vote was held, and Roberts's nomination expired when Bush left office after losing the 1992 presidential election. Roberts returned to Hogan & Hartson as a partner, and became the head of the firm's appellate practice. In this capacity, Roberts argued several cases before the Supreme Court:

U.S. Court of Appeals

George W. Bush nominated Roberts to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on May 9, 2001, but the nomination — along with 29 others — failed to make it out of the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. He was renominated on January 7, 2003, to replace James L. Buckley. His nomination was approved by the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 16 to three, with Senators Richard Durbin, Charles Schumer and Ted Kennedy opposing. However, he was approved by the Senate under unanimous consent and he received his commission on June 2, 2003. At the time Roberts left private practice to join the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, he reported in a financial disclosure filing in 2005 that he earned a salary of $1,044,399, had many stocks (including pharmaceutical and technology investments, such as holdings in Pfizer and Procter & Gamble), and a one-eighth interest in a cottage in the village of Knocklong, County Limerick, Republic of Ireland, his wife's ancestral homeland, valued at $15,000 or less.

U.S. Supreme Court

Nomination and confirmation

On July 19, 2005, President Bush nominated Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court, to fill an anticipated vacancy which would be left by the announced retirement of Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Roberts was the first Supreme Court nominee since Stephen Breyer in 1994. Bush announced Roberts's nomination in a live, nationwide television broadcast from the East Room of the White House. White House Following the September 3 2005 death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Bush withdrew Roberts's nomination as O'Connor's successor, and on September 6, announced of Roberts's new nomination to the position of Chief Justice. Bush asked the Senate to expedite Roberts's confirmation hearings in order to fill the vacancy by the beginning of the Supreme Court's session in early October. John Roberts follows in the footsteps of former Chief Justice Warren Burger who was also elevated to the position of Chief Justice directly from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. On September 22 the Senate Judiciary Committee approved Roberts's nomination by a vote of 13-5, with Senators Ted Kennedy, Richard Durbin, Charles Schumer, Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein the dissenting votes. Roberts was confirmed by the full Senate on September 29, passing by a margin of [http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00245 78-22]. All Republicans, 22 Democrats and the lone Independent voted for Roberts; 22 Democrats voted against him. Due to Republican control of the Senate, Roberts's approval was never truly in doubt, but the final vote tally in support of Roberts was higher than many on both sides had expected only a few weeks earlier. Reasons for the total included Roberts's performance during his confirmation hearings, private conversations senators had with Roberts in the days before the final vote, and a strategy by some Democrats in preparation for the upcoming confirmation battle over Sandra Day O'Connor's seat.

Supreme Court career

Sandra Day O'Connor, September 29, 2005.]] On September 29, just hours after his Senate confirmation, he took the Constitutional oath of office, which was administered by Associate Justice John Paul Stevens at the White House. He took the judicial oath provided for by the Judiciary Act of 1789 on October 3 2005 at the United States Supreme Court building, prior to the first oral arguments of the 2005 term. At 50, Roberts is the youngest man to have become Chief Justice since John Marshall (that said, many Associate Justices, including Justices Scalia and Thomas, have joined the Court younger). John Roberts received more Senate votes supporting his nomination than any other nominee for Chief Justice in American history. Other nominees have received higher percentages of votes, but this is usually attributable to the fact that all opposing senators voted on this nomination while, in other chief justice votes, many in opposition simply did not vote or were not present when the vote took place. It was also traditional before the latter 20th century to approve many nominees by voice vote, in which the number in opposition was not noted. Roberts presided over his first oral arguments on October 3, 2005, when the Court began its 2005-2006 session. He presided over oral arguments in separate cases involving labor law and a Kansas case on whether states may tax motor fuel sold on Indian reservations, interrupting periodically to ask questions or advise lawyers as to when their time was up. Ending a week's worth of idle speculation, Roberts opted to wear a plain black robe on his first day, eschewing the gold sleeve-bars added to the Chief Justice's robes by his predecessor.

Jurisprudence

During Judiciary Committee hearings on his nomination to the circuit court, Roberts testified about his views on jurisprudence.[http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/26jan20041230/www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/pdf/108hrg/92548.pdf]

The Commerce Clause

[S]tarting with McCulloch v. Maryland, Chief Justice John Marshall gave a very broad and expansive reading to the powers of the Federal Government and explained that — and I don't remember the exact quote — but if the ends be legitimate, then any means chosen to achieve them are within the power of the Federal Government, and cases interpreting that, throughout the years, have come down. Certainly, by the time Lopez was decided, many of us had learned in law school that it was just sort of a formality to say that interstate commerce was affected and that cases weren't going to be thrown out that way. Lopez certainly breathed new life into the Commerce Clause. I think it remains to be seen, in subsequent decisions, how rigorous a showing, and in many cases, it is just a showing. It's not a question of an abstract fact, does this affect interstate commerce or not, but has this body, the Congress, demonstrated the impact on interstate commerce that drove them to legislate? That's a very important factor. It wasn't present in Lopez at all. I think the members of Congress had heard the same thing I had heard in law school, that this is unimportant — and they hadn't gone through the process of establishing a record in that case.[http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/26jan20041230/www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/pdf/108hrg/92548.pdf]

Federalism

During confirmation hearings Roberts assailed Federalism and defended the principle of States' Rights, stating that

[S]imply because you have a problem that needs addressing, it’s not necessarily the case that Federal legislation is the best way to address it...The constitutional limitation doesn’t turn on whether it’s a good idea. There is not a ‘‘good idea’’ clause in the Constitution. It can be a bad idea, but certainly still satisfy the constitutional requirements."[http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/26jan20041230/www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/pdf/108hrg/92548.pdf]

Once on the bench, however, Roberts' favoring of Federalism seems to have come to the fore. In the first major case to be heard after his confirmation to The Supreme Court the state of Oregon presented a challenge to a 2001 directive by US Attorney General John Ashcroft that physician-assisted suicide had no "legitimate medical purpose". The Bush appointee argued that prescribing a lethal drug for purposes of suicide violates the federal Controlled Substances Act and that this federal law trumps Oregon's state law and dismisses the long-held position that medical practices are to be regulated by the states. If enforced by the Bush administration, doctors who give out drugs under the Oregon law could lose their licenses. A federal judge and in 2004 the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the federal government's position. To do so, the appeals court ruled, "interferes with the democratic debate about physician-assisted suicide" and prevented the government from intervening in medical procedures specifically allowed under Oregon law. The Supreme Court has traditionally deferred to states' rights to set their own course, at the expense of federal power. After becoming Chief Justice, during presentation of arguments by lawyers for Oregon Roberts asked an Oregon lawyer "Doesn't (the Oregon Law) undermine the uniformity of federal law?", a question which seemed to many observers to foreshadow his willingness to use his authority assert the principle of Federalism, challenging and overturning any State laws which legalize medical procedures of which the Bush administration does not approve.

Judicial activism and deference to legislatures

[T]he Supreme Court has, throughout its history, on many occasions described the deference that is due to legislative judgments. Justice Holmes described assessing the constitutionality of an act of Congress as the gravest duty that the Supreme Court is called upon to perform …[I]t’s a principle that is easily stated and needs to be observed in practice, as well as in theory. Now, the Court, of course, has the obligation, and has been recognized since Marbury v. Madison, to assess the constitutionality of acts of Congress, and when those acts are challenged, it is the obligation of the Court to say what the law is. The determination of when deference to legislative policy judgments goes too far and becomes abdication of the judicial responsibility, and when scrutiny of those judgments goes too far on the part of the judges and becomes what I think is properly called judicial activism, that is certainly the central dilemma of having an unelected, as you describe it correctly, undemocratic judiciary in a democratic republic.[http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/26jan20041230/www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/pdf/108hrg/92548.pdf]

In referring to Brown v. Board that overturned school segregation: "The Court in that case, of course, overruled a prior decision. I don't think that constitutes judicial activism because obviously if the decision is wrong, it should be overruled. That's not activism. That's applying the law correctly."

Roe v. Wade

In his Senate testimony, Roberts acknowledged that, on the Circuit Court, he would have an obligation to follow precedents established by the Supreme Court, including the controversial decision invalidating many restrictions on the right to an abortion. He stated: "Roe v. Wade is the settled law of the land… There is nothing in my personal views that would prevent me from fully and faithfully applying that precedent, as well as Casey." [http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_senate_hearings&docid=f:92548.wais] (See John Roberts Supreme Court nomination and hearings for speculation about Roberts's current views, concerns about these views raised in the hearings, and the potential impact they might have on his actions in the Supreme Court.)

Judicial opinions

Roberts has authored 49 opinions in his two years in the D.C. Circuit but has elicited only two dissents on his decisions, and on the many other cases he has heard in that time, he has authored only three dissenting opinions of his own. Because of this short record, Roberts does not have an extensive case history from which a general approach to the Constitution can be determined, and he appears not to have publicly stated his views on the subject. He has even said that "I do not think beginning with an all-encompassing approach to constitutional interpretation is the best way to faithfully construe the document."[http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_senate_hearings&docid=f:92548.wais] Cass Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago argues that in general, Roberts appears to be a judicial minimalist, emphasizing precedent, as opposed to an originalism-oriented or rights-focused jurist. "Judge Roberts's opinions thus far are careful, lawyerly and narrow. They avoid broad pronouncements. They do not try to reorient the law."[http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050801&s=sunstein080105]. His past rulings have included the following issues:

Fourth and Fifth Amendments

The D.C. Circuit case Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro Authority, [http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200410/03-7149a.pdf 386 F.3d 1148], involved a twelve-year-old girl who was, according to the Washington Post, asked if she had any drugs in her possession, searched for drugs, taken into custody, handcuffed, driven to police headquarters, booked and fingerprinted because she violated a publicly-advertised zero tolerance "no eating" policy in a Washington D.C. metro station by eating a single french fry. Roberts wrote for a 3-0 panel affirming a district court decision that dismissed the girl's complaint, which was predicated on the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, specifically the claim that an adult would have only received a citation for the same offense, while children must be detained until parents are notified. Roberts began his opinion by noting, "No one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation," and pointing out that the policies under which the girl was apprehended had since been changed. Because age discrimination is allowed under previous jurisprudence if there is any rational basis for it, only weak state interests were required to justify the policy. "Because parents and guardians play an essential role in that rehabilitative process, it is reasonable for the District to seek to ensure their participation, and the method chosen — detention until the parent is notified and retrieves the child — certainly does that, in a way issuing a citation might not." Roberts concluded that the age discrimination and detention in this case were constitutional, noting that "the question before us... is not whether these policies were a bad idea, but whether they violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.", language reminiscent of Justice Potter Stewart's dissent in Griswold v. Connecticut, in which Justice Stewart wrote, "We are not asked in this case to say whether we think this law is unwise, or even asinine. We are asked to hold that it violates the United States Constitution. And that, I cannot do."

Military tribunals

In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Roberts was part of a unanimous panel overturning the district court ruling and upholding military tribunals set up by the Bush administration for trying terrorism suspects known as enemy combatants. Circuit Judge A. Raymond Randolph, writing for the court, ruled that Hamdan, a driver for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden [http://www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=712&p=local&a=5], could be tried by a military court because # the military commission had the approval of Congress; # the Third Geneva Convention is a treaty between nations and as such it does not confer individual rights and remedies enforceable in U.S. courts; # even if the Convention could be enforced in U.S. courts, it would not be of assistance to Hamdan at the time because, for a conflict such as the war against al-Qaeda (considered by the court as a separate war from that against Afghanistan itself) that is not between two countries, it guarantees only a certain standard of judicial procedure without speaking to the jurisdiction in which the prisoner must be tried. The court held open the possibility of judicial review of the results of the military commission after the current proceedings have ended.[http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/docs/common/opinions/200507/04-5393a.pdf]

Environmental regulation

On the U.S. Court of Appeals, Roberts wrote a dissenting opinion regarding Rancho Viejo, LLC v. Norton, [http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/dc/015373b.html 323 F.3d 1062], a case involving the protection of a rare California toad under the Endangered Species Act. When the court denied a rehearing en banc, [http://laws.lp.findlaw.com/dc/015373b.html 334 F.3d 1158] (D.C. Cir. 2003), Roberts dissented, arguing that the original opinion was wrongly decided because he found it inconsistent with United States v. Lopez and United States v. Morrison in that it focused on the effects of the regulation, rather than the taking of the toads themselves, on interstate commerce. In Roberts's view, the Commerce Clause of the Constitution did not permit the government to regulate activity affecting what he called "a hapless toad" that "for reasons of its own, lives its entire life in California." He said that reviewing the case could allow the court "alternative grounds for sustaining application of the Act that may be more consistent with Supreme Court precedent."

Bibliography of articles by John G. Roberts, Jr.

The University of Michigan Law Library (External Links, below) has compiled fulltext links to these articles and a number of briefs and arguments.
- Developments in the Law – Zoning, "The Takings Clause," 91 Harv. L. Rev. 1462 (1978). (Section III of a longer article beginning on p. 1427)
- Comment, "Contract Clause – Legislative Alteration of Private Pension Agreements: Allied Structural Steel Co. v. Spannaus," 92 Harv. L. Rev. 86 (1978). (Subsection C of a longer article beginning on p. 57)
- New Rules and Old Pose Stumbling Blocks in High Court Cases, The Legal Times, February 26 1990, co-authored with E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.
- Article III Limits on Statutory Standing, 42 Duke L. J. 1219 (1992-1993).
- Riding the Coattails of the Solicitor General, The Legal Times, March 29 1993.
- The New Solicitor General and the Power of the Amicus, The Wall Street Journal, May 5 1993.
- The 1992-1993 Supreme Court, Public Interest Law Review 107 (1994).
- Forfeitures: Does Innocence Matter?, New Jersey Law Journal, October 9 1995.
- Thoughts on Presenting an Effective Oral Argument, School Law in Review (1997). [http://www.nsba.org/site/docs/36400/36316.pdf Link]
- The Bush Panel, 2003 BYU L. Rev. 62 (2003). (Part of a tribute to Rex. E. Lee beginning on p. 1. "The Bush Panel" contains a speech by Roberts.)
- Oral Advocacy and the Re-emergence of a Supreme Court Bar, 30 J. Supr. Ct. Hist. 68 (2005).

References

News articles

- "Roberts Listed in Federalist Society '97-98 Directory". Washington Post. July 25 2005. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072401201.html 14]
- "Appellate judge Roberts is Bush high-court pick." MSNBC. July 19 2005. [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8625492]
- Argetsinger, Amy, and Jo Becker. "The nominee as a young pragmatist: under Reagan, Roberts tackled tough issues." Washington Post. July 22 2005. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072101782.html?nav=hcmodule]
- Barbash, Fred, et al: "Bush to nominate Judge John G. Roberts Jr." Washington Post. July 19 2005. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071901426.html]
- Becker, Jo, and R. Jeffrey Smith. "Record of accomplishment—and some contradictions." Washington Post. July 20 2005. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071902065.html]
- Bumuller, Elisabeth, and David Stout: "President chooses conservative judge as nominee to court." New York Times. July 19 2005. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/politics/politicsspecial1/19cnd-judge.html?hp&ex=1121832000&en=856520306462d3af&ei=5094&partner=homepage]
- "Bush: Meeting with Roberts during recount wasn't political." Associated Press. July 23 2005. [http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Politics/Florida/03FloridaPOLF01072305.htm]
- Entous, Adam. "Bush picks conservative Roberts for Supreme Court." Reuters. July 19 2005. [http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=tnBusinessNews&storyID=nN19377424&imageid=&cap=]
- Kallestad, Brent. "Roberts helped counsel Jeb Bush." Associated Press. July 21 2005. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072101961.html?nav=hcmodule]
- Lane, Charles. "Federalist affiliation misstated: Roberts does not belong to group." Washington Post. July 21 2005. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002431.html?nav=hcmodule]
- Lane, Charles. "Short record as judge is under a microscope." Washington Post. July 21 2005. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002322.html]
- Groppe, Maureen, and John Tuohy. "If you ask John where he's from, he says Indiana." Indianapolis Star. July 20 2005. [http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050720/NEWS02/507200476]
- McFeatters, Ann. "John G. Roberts Jr. is Bush choice for Supreme Court." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. July 19 2005. [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05200/540299.stm]
- Riechmann, Deb. "Federal judge Roberts is Bush's choice." Associated Press. July 20 2005. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5152882,00.html]
- "Roberts: A smart, self-effacing 'Eagle Scout.'" Associated Press. July 20 2005. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/20/roberts.profile.ap/]
- "Who Is John G. Roberts Jr.?" ABC News. July 19 2005. [http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news%5C071905_nw_john_roberts.html]

Government/official biographies

- "President announces Judge John Roberts as Supreme Court nominee." Office of the Press Secretary, Executive Office of the President. [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050719-7.html]
- "Roberts, John G., Jr." Federal Judicial Center. [http://air.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=3001]
- "John G. Roberts biography." Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice. [http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/robertsbio.htm ]
- "Biographical Sketches of the Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit." United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. [http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/internet.nsf/Content/Stub+-+Biographical+Sketches+of+the+Judges+of+U.S.+Court+of+Appeals+for+the+DC+Circuit]
- John G. Roberts Questionnaire for Appeals Court Confirmation Hearing (p. 297-339) and responses to Questions from Various Senators (p. 443-461) [http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/pdf/108hrg/89324.pdf] (large PDF file)

Other

- Coffin, Shannen W. "Meet John Roberts: The President Makes the Best Choice." National Review Online. July 19 2005. [http://www.nationalreview.com/coffin/coffin200507192142.asp]
- "Former Hogan & Hartson partner nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court." Hogan & Hartson, LLP. July 20 2005. [http://www.hhlaw.com/site/news.aspx?Show=538]
- Goldman, Jerry. "John G. Roberts, Jr." Oyez. [http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/850/]
- "John G. Roberts, Jr. Fact Sheet" La Lumiere School. [http://www.lalumiere.org/about/roberts.htm]
- "John G. Roberts federal campaign contributions." Newsmeat.com. July 19 2005. [http://www.newsmeat.com/judiciary_political_donations/John_G_Roberts.php]
- "John G. Roberts Jr." DKosopedia. July 19 2005. [http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/John_G._Roberts_Jr.]
- "Progress for America: Support for the Confirmation of John G. Roberts" [http://judgeroberts.com/]
- "Report of the Alliance for Justice: Opposition to the Confirmation of John G. Roberts to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit." Alliance for Justice. [http://www.independentjudiciary.com/resources/docs/John_Roberts_Report.pdf] (PDF file)

Notes

# "Wexler: Bush's Supreme Court pick insulting to disenfranchised Florida voters." Office of Representative Robert Wexler. July 20 2004. [http://www.wexler.house.gov/pressreleases/072005.htm]
Kallestad, Brent. "Roberts helped counsel Jeb Bush." Associated Press. July 21 2005. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072101961.html?nav=hcmodule].
It is possible this will be a subject of inquiry during the Senate confirmation hearings. # "Roberts: A smart, self-effacing 'Eagle Scout.'" Associated Press. July 20 2005. [http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/07/20/roberts.profile.ap/] # "Bush: Meeting with Roberts during recount wasn't political." Associated Press. July 23 2005. [http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Politics/Florida/03FloridaPOLF01072305.htm] # Lane, Charles. "Federalist affiliation misstated: Roberts does not belong to group." Washington Post. July 21 2005. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072002431.html?nav=hcmodule]
Although in the days immediately following his nomination Roberts was widely reported as being a member of the Federalist Society—by media outlets including CNN, the Los Angeles Times, the Legal Times, and the Washington Post—and he has spoken at Federalist Society events, Roberts subsequently stated that he never has paid the group's $50 membership fee, and does not recall ever having been a member, although the 1997–1998 directory lists him as a member of the [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072401201.html steering committee].

External links

- [http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/JohnRoberts/ Judge Roberts's Published Opinions in a searchable database]
- [http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/JohnRoberts/confirmation_hearing.asp Search and browse the transcripts from Judge Roberts's confirmation hearing]
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- [http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/pdf/108hrg/92548.pdf Transcript of Senate Judiciary Committee hearing] on the nomination of John Roberts to the D.C. circuit (Roberts Q&A on pages 17-79) [http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_senate_hearings&docid=f:92548.wais plain text available here]
- [http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Scotus.html Bush Picks Roberts to Be Chief Justice, Replacing Rehnquist]
- [http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2581160_1 FindLaw Lawyer Profile]
- [http://www.anastigmatix.net/reference/JGR.html List of Circuit Judge Roberts's opinions for the DC Circuit ]
- [http://www.law.umich.edu/library/news/topics/roberts/robertsindex.htm University of Michigan Law Library fulltext links]
- [http://www.fed-soc.org/ Federalist Society]
- [http://www.rcfp.org/news/documents/20050721-robertsrec.html A summary of media-related cases handled by Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr.] from The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, July 21 2005
- [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec05/roberts_7-22.html Experts Analyze Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts's Legal Record]
- [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/19/AR2005071900870.html Profile of the Nominee] - The Washington Post
- [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/politics/politicsspecial1/11questions.html?ex=1284091200&en=abf98b4ef43253a8&ei=5090 A Senate Hearing Primer] - The New York Times
- [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/politics/politicsspecial1/roberts_textindex.html Video and Transcripts From the Roberts Confirmation Hearings] - The New York Times
- [http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/ SCOTUSblog]
- [http://www.sctnomination.com/blog/ Supreme Court Nomination Blog]
- [http://www.c-span.org/congress/roberts_senate.asp Senate Vote on the Roberts nomination]
- [http://www.historyguy.com/biofiles/chief_justice_scotus.html List of Chief Justices, including John Roberts, Jr.]
- [http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/10/04/on_first_day_roberts_sets_no_nonsense_tone/ On first day, Roberts sets no-nonsense tone] - The Boston Globe Roberts, John G., Jr. Roberts, John G., Jr. Roberts, John G., Jr. Roberts, John G., Jr. Roberts, John G., Jr. Roberts, John G., Jr. Roberts, John G., Jr. Roberts, John G., Jr. Roberts, John G., Jr. Roberts, John G., Jr.

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- Cantidad
- Val

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Diodo Varicap
El Diodo de capacidad variable o Varicap es un tipo de diodo que basa su funcionamiento en el fenómeno que hace que la anchura de la barrera de potencial en una unión PN varie en función de la tensión inversa aplicada entre sus extremos. Al aumentar dicha tensión, aumenta la anchura de esa barrera, disminuyendo así la capacidad del diodo. De este modo se obtiene un España en la provincia de Ciudad Real, dentro de la Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha. __FORCETOC__ =Historia= Valdepeñas: El nombre de la localidad, "Valle de las peñas", viene dado por estar situada en un amplio meandro del río Jabalón rodeado de cerros (estribaciones de Sierra Morena que marcan el límite sur de la llanura manchega justamente en esta localidad) y abundar la roca caliza en su subsuelo, favorecie

El Libro de los Cuentos Perdidos
El Libro de los Cuentos Perdidos fue el título de los primeros dos volúmenes de la serie de 12 libros denominados La Historia de la Tierra Media editados por Christopher Tolkien en los años 1983 y 1984, donde analiza los manuscritos no publicados de su padre J. R. R. Tolkien. Contiene las primeras versiones de las historias comenza

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Tiempo meteorológico
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Fulereno
Los fulerenos son la tercera forma más estable del carbono, tras el diamante y el grafito. Fueron descubiertos recientemente, y se han hecho muy populares entre los químicos, tanto por su belleza estructural como por su versatilidad para la síntesis de nuevos

Wikipedia:Países de la semana
Todas las semanas uno o dos países son elegidos para mejorar su artículo principal y los que se derivan inmediatamente de éste. Las propuestas para país de la semana generalmente apelan a uno de los siguientes criterios:
- El artículo principal del país, o sus artículos derivados inmediatos poseen información mínima o nula.
- El país tiene especial relevancia en el período a votar por causa de algún acontecimiento importante reciente, próximo o en progreso.
- El país es un país hispanoparlante que no ha sido destacado como país de la semana durante el año e

Talcott Parsons
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