This book was a gift and one I would not have thought to read otherwise. Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, and with When Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, announced her retirement in 2005, the Bush Administration ultimately settled on John Roberts to replace her as an associate justice. And since compared to the Vietnam War and a decade's worth of riots or the depression and two episodes of global carnage that were the majority of the first half of the 20th century, the 1980s and 90's were garden club tea party, you need a tyrant to provide the turbulence. Despite Roberts and Gorsuch claiming to be umpires during their confirmation hearings, this book will demonstrate this branch of government is no less political than the other two branches. Having oral arguments on television would be a start in that direction. Justice Sonja Sotomayor benefitted from affirmative action a great deal and sincerely believes it is still needed. Roberts was confirmed by the full Senate on September 29, 2005 and sworn in to the office of Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court that same day. When Roberts was able to study at Harvard, he excelled at history, writing and studying late into the night, even when his coterie of friends were off causing trouble or meeting young women. "Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. "The Chief" offers a solid overview of Chief Justice John Roberts' career both on and off the bench. And thus you have The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times oI guess it's easier to write about the times surrounding the life of Supreme Court of the United States Chief Justice John Roberts if you describe them as turbulent. His views are very conservative and are viewed suspiciously by those supporting civil rights, anti discrimination efforts and pro-choice supporters.An interesting and sober reminder of how bad things may become on the Supreme CourtAs authoritative an analysis of Chief Justice John Roberts as we are likely to get at what probably will be the midpoint of his tenure as Chief Justice. It is hard to believe after reading this book that the Supreme Court is an objective branch of government. He is largely responsible for establishing the Supreme Court's role in federal government.John Hancock was an 18th century U.S. merchant who was president of the Continental Congress and the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence.John Adams was a Founding Father, the first vice president of the United States and the second president. Roberts was originally nominated to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. It is fascinating to read about these cases, how the various justices view the cases, how they interact with each other, and how they reach their conclusions and how they rule on each case.

Author Joan Biskupic has done a good job of showing how John Roberts' life has shaped him, from his early years at a sheltered Catholic boarding school in Northern Indiana, to Harvard and then Harvard Law, to his work in the Reagan and then H.W. Oh, my! For anyone thinking Roberts will become a centrist this book dispels that notion.

Bush Administrations, to his time arguing before the Court as an appellate attorney. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. In On November 4, 2016, Roberts was the deciding vote in a 5–3 decision to stay an execution.Roberts opposes the use of race in assigning students to particular schools, including for purposes such as maintaining integrated schools.Roberts authored the 2007 student free speech case On June 28, 2012, Roberts delivered the majority opinion in Although Roberts is identified as having a conservative judicial philosophy, Roberts is seen as having a more moderate conservative orientation, particularly when In 2013, Roberts wrote the 5-4 majority opinion that the appellants seeking to uphold Roberts and his wife, Jane Sullivan, have been married since 1996.Roberts is one of 14 Catholic justices—out of 114 justices total—in the history of the Supreme Court.According to a disclosure Roberts submitted to the The University of Michigan Law Library (External Links, below) has compiled fulltext links to these articles and a number of briefs and arguments. However, the book fails to ground the latter in the historical context of other past Chief Justices, beyond passing references to Taney and Marshall. If you enjoy the history of the Supreme Court, you will enjoy this book.I am not a fan of Chief Justice Roberts having been appalled by his routine disregard, in divergence from his Senate confirmation hearing testimony, for stare decisis in general and his rulings on race, abortion, and religion in particular. There is a sense that he absolutely abhors the politicization of the Court and this reader (whose political views lie just left of center) took some solace from this. Several of his rulings have proven to have had decided negative impacts on American democracy (Citizens United, Shelby County, Masterpiece Cake Shop among the more notable) yet Roberts continues firm in his opinions nonetheless. Biography. It helped me understand Roberts’ ideology more completely. John Roberts certainly leans to theVery interesting and well written book about the life and times of Chief Justice John Roberts. It was interesting to read about the various views of affirmative action. According to Thomas, they are always seen as "less than" by those who did not benefit from affirmative action. I am very glad that it did come my way, however, as I have never focused on the Supreme Court justices to learn more about who they really are. Read it and weep. Which is fine, although Biskupic doesn't seem strong on large-scale organization and there's a fair amount of seemingly needless repetition (most extensively about aThis starts off as a fairly standard biography of John Roberts, although one going out of its way to heavily foreshadow that its subject despises affirmative action and race-based preferences. from Harvard Law School in 1979. Public' Have Any Protection in the Roberts Court?"

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