John Roberts Research Paper

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Chief Justice Roberts An interesting chief of justice is John Roberts. Reason for this being is that he has participated in many important case in which have related to the violation of the first amendment. Chief Justice Roberts has had a successful start to his career and will be known for his very interesting cases and arguments. During his early life, John Roberts was the ideal student by displaying hard work and dedication in all of his studies and also participating in school sports such as wrestling and football where he was given the honor to be captain of the team. He was also very successful in college after graduating from Harvard College and Harvard Law both with honors. Many can find the present Chief of Justice as admirable considering all of his successes in college and how it is understandable that someone with that type of background deserves a position in the supreme court. On September 6th of 2005, President George Bush nominated John Roberts as the Chief of Justice of the United States which considered him to be the youngest Chief of Justice next to John Marshall at age 50. Since then, John Roberts has been serving his people in the supreme court by participating in many cases such as Roe vs. Wade, have been very controversial and regardless of which side he argues, will always leave some people …show more content…

One of which includes Rancho Viejo vs. Norton. Not only was he for making the shopping mall but he ignored the fact that this would interfere with an already endangered species. He was also part of the group that allowed a police officer to unlawfully search a vehicle without a warrant during the US. Vs. Brown case. John Roberts also voted for the Obama care act in which was almost denied as it was considered unconstitutional. Despite having a successful background, John Roberts can considerably be noted as being very controversial as he has made some arguable calls in his

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