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Chief Justice John Roberts spoke out in vain Tuesday against a lower court ruling he says will "grant drunk drivers 'one free swerve'" that could potentially end someone's life.
Chief Justice John Roberts once famously and controversially described a judge's role as akin to an umpire who merely calls balls and strikes.
Sonia Sotomayor will be sworn in as the 111th justice of the Supreme Court on Saturday, with Chief Justice John Roberts administering two oaths of office.
Don't look to the Supreme Court to set school rules, only to clarify them when officials have abdicated that responsibility, Chief Justice John Roberts said Saturday.
Chief Justice John Roberts has granted the Obama administration's request to the Supreme Court to block the release of certain sex offenders who have completed their federal prison terms.
Chief Justice John Roberts didn't have to worry about stumbling over an oath of office for the new Smithsonian chief Monday — all he had to do this time was hand over a key.
- There's been a flurry of interest in what's usually a small detail of a new presidency: the oath taking, which President Barack Obama repeated Wednesday after Chief Justice John Roberts stumbled over the words at Tuesday's inaugural ceremony.
After the flub heard around the world, President Barack Obama has taken the oath of office. Again. Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the oath to Obama on Wednesday night at the White House — a rare do-over. The surprise moment came in response to Tuesday's much-noticed stumble, when Roberts got the words of the oath a little off, which prompted Obama to do so, too.
Both Chief Justice John Roberts and President Barack Obama stumbled slightly over wording of the presidential oath of office on Tuesday, providing a brief, awkward moment in an otherwise smooth inauguration ceremony.
Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Barack Obama as president Tuesday in the first of what could be many important interactions for the two men of differing politics who rose quickly to power. The encounter was briefly awkward after Obama stepped on Roberts' opening lines from the 35-word constitutionally prescribed oath of office. The chief justice then wandered into a verbal detour of his own.
Barack Hussein Obama has taken the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States. With a hand on Abraham Lincoln's inaugural bible, and before a crowd stretching across the National Mall toward where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of his dream of racial equality, the 47-year-old Obama was sworn in as the first black American president by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that Congress should be as generous to judges as it already has been to itself, by approving an inflation-related increase in their pay.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, whose investments forced them to sit out cases before the Supreme Court, have significantly reduced their stock holdings, their latest financial disclosures show.
Chief Justice John Roberts plans to shift some of the Supreme Court's workload to avoid the annual crush of rulings handed down each June.
Chief Justice John Roberts sat out a case involving a drug company in which he owns stock, resulting in a 4-4 tie vote Monday that leaves the issue undecided nationally.
Chief Justice John Roberts urged Congress to raise the pay of federal judges in a year-end report that emphasized improving communications with Capitol Hill and the White House.
The Bush administration argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have sufficient opportunities to challenge their confinement, the third round of high court review of the detentions.
Chief Justice John Roberts won't have to worry about the bill for the ambulance ride after he suffered a seizure and fell at his island vacation home.
Chief Justice John Roberts walked out of a hospital in Maine Tuesday, released a day after he suffered a seizure. The White House said he told President Bush he was doing fine. Roberts strode briskly out of the Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport, Maine, wearing a blue sport coat, open collar shirt and slacks.
Chief Justice John Roberts is spending part of his summer vacation in a hospital bed after suffering a seizure in Maine.
Pay for federal judges is so inadequate that it threatens to undermine the judiciary's independence, Chief Justice John Roberts says in a year-end report critical of Congress.
The Snyders had enough people out to the Supreme Court Monday to field a baseball team. But the nine, lawyers all, realized a legal dream team vision of being admitted to practice law there.
Chief Justice John Roberts said last fall he would like to see the Supreme Court take up more cases. So far, however, his arrival has had the opposite effect.
Sotomayor's impact on trial as high court returns to work - USATODAY.comThe Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with high-profile disputes over gun rights, animal cruelty and life in prison for juvenile offenders.
For two days Sonia Sotomayor has repeatedly stated the mythical mantra that all decisions made by judges are based on the law. She has had to do this while Republican senators have baited her about her "Wise Latina" remark.
Op-Ed Columnist Charles M. Blow - Rogues, Robes and RacistsSomeone pinch me. I must be dreaming. Some of the same Republicans who have wielded the hot blade of racial divisiveness for years, are now calling Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court nominee, a racist. Oh, the hypocrisy!
No More Mr. Nice GuyAfter four years on the Court, however, Roberts's record is not that of a humble moderate but, rather, that of a doctrinaire conservative.
Do Empathy and Supreme Court Mix? When he spoke Friday, Obama offered some clues to his thinking about a nominee but little about the process.
Interview, Orly Taitz: Chief Justice Roberts Calls Conference on Obama Challenge: Lightfoot v. Bowen. January 7, 2009 by Arlen Williams.Chief Justice John Roberts has sent a full-throated challenge of Barack Obama's presidential eligibility to conference: Lightfoot v. Bowen (SCOTUS docket page). I.O. interviewed Lightfoot lead attorney, Orly Taitz at 2:20pm CT, today, minutes after she learned of this move.
Another Perspective: Lord Kennedy. By John Tabin. 6/13/2008 2:00:28 AMAs the swing vote on a polarized United States Supreme Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy is among the most powerful men in the country.
Justices Indicate They May Uphold Voter ID Rules There are many ways to lose a Supreme Court case, and by the end of an argument that was before the court on Wednesday, the Democrats who were challenging Indiana's voter-identification law appeared poised to lose theirs in a potentially sweeping way, with implications for many …
Thompson: U.S. must 'protect our citizens'. By Bill Theobald. December 19, 2007GANNETT NEWS SERVICE: A recapitulation of Fred's Political skills, Communication skills, Policy vision, Decision-making style, Management skills.
Chief Justice John Roberts Hospitalized After Seizure and FallU.S. Chief Justice John Roberts was taken to a hospital after a fall near his summer home in Port Clyde, Maine, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said.
Chief Justice Roberts hospitalizedChief Justice John Roberts was hospitalized Monday after falling while on vacation in Maine, the Supreme Court told NBC News. Roberts, 52, fell at his summer home off Port Clyde and the court said he was taken to a hospital as a precaution.
Giuliani: Abortion not a litmus test for judgesCOUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, a proponent of abortion rights, said Wednesday he would not use a judicial nominee's stand on the issue or the landmark Supreme Court decision as a litmus test.
Justice Denied - New York Times At the end of its first full term, Chief Justice John Roberts's court is emerging as the Warren court's mirror image.
High court upholds student's suspension for 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus' bannerThe Supreme Court ruling is Morse vs. Frederick, 06-278. It is available at www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/06-278.pdf.
Ruling 'Bong Hits' Out of BoundsA high-school joker's prank turned lawsuit spurs a conversation about students' rights to free speech, marijuana policy, and the responsibilities of of school principals.
Sports Columnist Dave Zirin on Muhammad Ali's Career and His Groundbreaking Political InvolvementIn this interview Dave Zirin talks about his reaction to Don Imus' comments, the reaction in the sports community, what Muhammad Ali would have said, and what his activism has meant to the world of sports.
Pelosi a rare example of a woman who 'has it all'::By Mark SteynBut don't Republicans have families, too? Yes, but let's face it, they creep you out, don't they? If you have the misfortune to be nominated by the Bush administration, your kids get headlines like ''An Image A Little Too Carefully Coordinated.'' That was the Washington Post's St …
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