Articles in Category: 'John Roberts'

In a Rut on Voting Rights Act
By: George Will | Posted: March 2, 2013 3:55 AM
WASHINGTON -- Progressives are remarkably uninterested in progress.
TAGS: Al Gore, Anthony Kennedy, John Kerry, John Roberts, Medicare, News, Social Security, Columns
 
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Health Care Act's Death Star?
By: George Will | Posted: January 21, 2013 3:55 AM
WASHINGTON -- A willow, not an oak. So said conservatives of Chief Justice John Roberts when he rescued the Affordable Care Act -- aka Obamacare -- from being found unconstitutional.
TAGS: Affordable Care Act, John Roberts, News, Obamacare, Thomas A. Lambert, Columns
 
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In 'Cases' You Missed Them, Florida’s Top Legal Stories of 2012
By: Eric Giunta | Posted: December 26, 2012 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: 2nd Judicial Circuit Court of Florida, Alex Villalobos, American Bar Association, Barbara Pariente, Chris Smith, Defend Justice from Politics, Democracy at Stake, First Amendment, Florida Legislature, Florida Supreme Court, George Zimmerman, health insurance mandates, Jackie Fulford, John Cooper, John Roberts, Joint Legislative Budget Commission, Judicial Activism, judicial merit retention, Medicaid expansion, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, News, Obamacare, originalism, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Peggy Quince, prison privatization, R. Fred Lewis, Republican Party of Florida, Sandy D'Alemberte, Stand Your Ground, state pension reform, Trayvon Martin, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics
 
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The News Squashers
By: L. Brent Bozell | Posted: October 31, 2012 3:55 AM
NBC's David Gregory isn't always a news reporter. As we're seeing with increasing frequency on that network, he's squashing stories. Call him an unreporter.
TAGS: Benghazi, Bill Clinton, Brit Hume, Carly Fiorina, Cliff May, Colin Powell, David Gregory, John McCain, John Roberts, News, Newt Gingrich, Richard Carmona, Todd Akin, Columns
 
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Our Evolving Social Thoughts
By: George Will | Posted: June 27, 2012 3:55 AM
"Even if it could be demonstrated unequivocally that [public flogging and hand branding] were not cruel and unusual measures in 1791 ... I doubt whether any federal judge -- even among the many who consider themselves originalists -- would sustain them against an Eighth Amendment challenge."
TAGS: Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Kuntrell Jackson, News, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sam Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Columns
 
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Pam Bondi: Supremes' Ruling on Teen Life Sentences will 'Greatly Impact' Florida
By: Jim Turner | Posted: June 27, 2012 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Miller v. Alabama, News, Pam Bondi, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics
 
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Florida Legislators Expected to Revive Immigration Push Following Arizona Ruling
By: Jim Turner | Posted: June 26, 2012 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: Alcee Hastings, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Arizona Immigration, Clarence Thomas, Don Gaetz, Florida Immigrant Coalition, Frederica Wilson, John Mica, John Roberts, News, Rick Scott, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court, Will Weatherford, Politics
 
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A Liberal Squeeze Play
By: George Will | Posted: May 26, 2012 6:37 PM
WASHINGTON -- In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that." TR was as mistaken about Holmes' spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts'.
TAGS: Anthony Kennedy, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, News, Obamacare, Pat Leahy, Sonia Sotomayor, Columns
 
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The Public Trial of Justice Roberts
By: Kathleen Parker | Posted: May 23, 2012 3:55 AM
WASHINGTON -- Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pivotal case according to the ruling political party's wishes.
TAGS: Affordable Care Act, Jeffrey Rosen, John Grisham, John Roberts, News, Pat Leahy, Columns
 
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Elena Kagan 'Cloud' Hangs Over Supreme Court as Obamacare Hearings Begin
By: Kenric Ward | Posted: March 26, 2012 9:45 AM
 
TAGS: Affordable Care Act, Antonin Scalia, Arizona immigration law, Clarence Thomas, Constitution, Freedom Watch USA, John Roberts, Judicial Watch, Larry Klayman, Laurence Tribe, Life and Liberty PAC, Marshall DeRosa, News, Obamacare, recuse, solicitor general, Tom Fitton, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics
 
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Rick Santorum Attacks Obama Over Abortion
By: Kevin Derby | Posted: June 25, 2011 3:55 AM
 
TAGS: 2012, Abortion, Arlen Specter, Barack Obama, Bob Casey, George W. Bush, Glenn Beck, John Roberts, News, NRLC, Pat Toomey, Republicans, Rick Santorum, Roe vs. Wade, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court of the United States, Politics
 
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Manned Up No More: Court Limits Life Terms for Teens
By: Kenric Ward | Posted: May 18, 2010 11:37 AM
 

In slapping down life sentences for teenage offenders in non-homicide cases, the U.S. Supreme Court ended life terms for 77 Florida inmates.

Saying Monday's ruling "will have a significant impact on our state's juvenile justice and corrections systems," Attorney General Bill McCollum said his office, along with the state Department of Juvenile Justice and Department of Corrections, has a lot of work to do.

TAGS: Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Attorney General's Office, Bill McCollum, Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, John Roberts, life sentence without parole, News, Samuel Alito, Terrance Graham, Government
 
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