...brought the case against the federal law had been with her now?deceased female spouse since 1967.Chief Justice John Roberts said proponents were showing inconsistency with their dual claims that children of same?sex marriages fare as well as...
...threaten to withhold a state's entire Medicaid allotment if it doesn't participate in the expansion. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's four liberal justices - Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor...
...the government to dictate what one can or cannot do according to one's own conscience.Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee, sided with the liberals on the bench in favor of forcing Americans to purchase health...
...the court ruling, one may have gotten closest to answering the question about what was in the mind of Chief Justice John Roberts and how it reflects on what our nation is becoming.Paul Rothstein, a professor at Georgetown Law School, taught...
...to include consideration of an applicant's race in some circumstances.Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Roberts has been on record stating in 2007, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating...
...2009, he vigorously denied to George Stephanopoulos of ABC that the individual mandate is a tax. Now Chief Justice John Roberts says it is. If money leaves your pocket and goes to government, it's a tax, no matter the label.Some congressional...
I demand rejection of John Roberts, by filibuster if necessary. Please reject Judge Roberts as...not be dismantled should demand that the U.S. Senate prevent John Roberts from becoming the next chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...coverage of this particular oral argument," C-SPAN Chairman Brian Lamb wrote in a Nov. 15 letter to Chief Justice John Roberts. "It is a case which will affect every American's life, our economy, and will certainly be an issue in the upcoming...
"Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules; they apply them." --John Roberts, Supreme Court nominee, at the beginning of his confirmation hearing.
Here are contrasting viewpoints on last week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Judge John Roberts, President Bush's candidate for chief justice. * Democratic senators were out of line in asking Roberts questions on legal...
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