John roberts age
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Chief Justice John Roberts
Selected Opinions by Chief Justice Roberts:
Trump v. United States (2024)Topic:Separation of Powers
Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024)
Topic:Government Agencies
Chevron is overruled. Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority. Courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.
United States v. Rahimi (2024)
Topic:Gun Rights
An individual found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another person may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment.
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John Roberts
(1955-)
Who Is John Roberts?
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts grew up in Long Beach, Indiana, and attended Harvard Law School. He served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for two years before being confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States in 2005. In June 2015, Roberts ruled on two landmark legislative cases: He reaffirmed the legality of Obamacare, by siding with the liberal wing of the Court, along with swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy. However, he held to his conservative views on the issue of gay marriage and voted against the Court's decision that made same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states.
Early Life and Education
John Glover Roberts Jr., the only son of John G. "Jack" Roberts Sr. and Rosemary Podrasky Roberts, was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 1955. In 1959, the family moved to Long Beach, Indiana, where Roberts grew up with his three sisters, Kathy, Peggy and Barbara.
He attended Notre Dame Elementary School in Long Beach and then La Lumiere boarding school in La Porte, Indiana. Along with being an excellent
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Chief Justice of the United States
On September 29, 2005, John G. Roberts, Jr. was confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.
BIOGRAPHY
John G. Roberts, Jr., was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 1955.
He grew up in Indiana, where he captained his high school football team and worked summers in a steel mill to help pay his way through college.
In 1976, he received his bachelor's degree from Harvard, summa cum laude , after only three years.
He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated magna cum laude in 1979.
The year after he graduated from law school, Roberts clerked for Justice Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
- Friendly is acclaimed as the preeminent appellate judge of his generation. Chief Justice Warren Burger said of Justice Friendly that he could not identify “any judicial colleague more highly qualified to have come to the Supreme Court of the United States than Henry Friendly.” (Jeffrey B. M
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