Articles in Category: 'John Roberts'

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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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.