Archive: Resources: John G. Roberts
Roberts Resources
The Library of Congress has provided a large variety of resources online on John Roberts. Click here. See also a collection compiled by The Washington Post here....
By Fred Barbash | September 7, 2005; 03:32 PM ET | Comments (25)
Roberts Documents
The National Archives today released a small number of JR-related documents. They are available online here. For more resources from The Washington Post, click here....
By Fred Barbash | August 29, 2005; 02:47 PM ET | Email a Comment
Resources
The Washinton Post offers a variety of resources on Judge Roberts. To see the documents released earlier this week, click here. To see other key documents, including papers, decisions and Supreme Court briefs, click here For recent Post news articles, click here....
By Fred Barbash | August 17, 2005; 06:25 PM ET | Comments (1)
Roberts Questionnaire
See Judge Roberts's responses to the Judiciary Committee questionnaire and other primary source materials here....
By Fred Barbash | August 3, 2005; 05:56 PM ET | Comments (2)
Excerpts From Roberts SJC Questionnaire
Excerpts from John Roberts's Judiciary Committee questionnaire via AP: "It is not 'judicial activism' when the courts carry out their constitutionally-assigned function and overturn a decision of the Executive or Legislature in the course of adjudicating a case or controversy properly before the courts." "The proper exercise of the judicial role in our constitutional system requires a degree of institutional and personal modesty and humility. This essential modesty manifests itself in several ways: "First, judges must be constantly aware that their role, while important, is limited. They do not have a commission to solve society's problems, as they see them, but simply to decide cases before them according to the rule of law. ... "Second, a judge needs the humility to appreciate that he is not necessarily the first person to confront a particular issue. Precedent plays an important role in promoting the stability of the legal system. ..."Third, a...
By Fred Barbash | August 3, 2005; 03:14 AM ET | Email a Comment
More DOJ Documents
More released documents pertaining to Roberts at DOJ can be found here. For a full list of available resources, see the washingtonpost.com special report....
By Fred Barbash | August 2, 2005; 07:11 PM ET | Email a Comment
Roberts Documents
Look at Roberts DOJ documents, opinions, dissents oral arguments and other primary materials in washingtonpost.com's special report. Included are memos some Democrats cite on civil rights issues....
By Fred Barbash | July 29, 2005; 02:01 PM ET | Email a Comment
Roberts Memos
To read some memos written by Roberts on critical issues while serving in the Reagan administration, see this special resource section at washingtonpost.com. Also check back here often for additions to our own list of primary sources on Roberts....
By Fred Barbash | July 25, 2005; 11:16 AM ET | Comments (1)
More Resources on Roberts
Here are some new links to primary sources. Click through for previously posted links: Read a Roberts law review article on standing in the Duke Law Journal, 42 LJ 1219, April, 1993. Listen to recordings of some of Roberts's oral arguments on behalf of the United States courtesy of Oyez. org. A few links to some transcripts of Supreme Court oral arguments by Roberts for private clients. The link is via the Supreme Court Web site....
By Fred Barbash | July 22, 2005; 12:39 PM ET | Email a Comment
More Resources on Roberts
Here are some new ones, followed by some previously posted links: A few links to some transcripts of Supreme Court oral arguments by Roberts for private clients. The link is via the Supreme Court Web site. More to come. Smith v. Doe, Nov. 13, 2002 Barnhart v. Peabody Coal Co., Oct. 8, 2002 Gonzaga University v. Doe, April 24, 2002 Rush Prudential HMO, Inc. v. Moran, Jan. 16, 2002 Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Jan. 7, 2002 Toyota Motor Mfg. v. Williams, Nov. 7, 2001 U.S. Brief in Rust v. Sullivan (1990) signed by Roberts as deputy solicitor general. Subject: abortion. U.S. Brief in Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell (1989) signed by Roberts. Subject: school desegregation. Circuit Judge Roberts's dissent from denial of a rehearing en banc in Rancho Viejo v. Norton Gale (2003). Subject: commerce clause and endangered species. Judge Roberts's opinion in Hedgepeth v....
By Fred Barbash | July 21, 2005; 12:57 PM ET | Comments (1)
Roberts Resources
U.S. Brief in Rust v. Sullivan (1990) signed by Roberts as deputy solicitor general. Subject: Abortion. U.S. Brief in Oklahoma City Public Schools v. Dowell (1989) signed by Roberts. Subject: School Desegregation. Circuit Judge Roberts's dissent from denial of a rehearing en banc in Rancho Viejo v. Norton (2003). Subject: Commerce Clause and Endangered Species. Judge Roberts's opinion in Hedgepeth v. WMATA, the case involving a 12-year-old girl arrested for eating a french fry in a Washington Metro station. A transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for John G. Roberts to the U.S. Court of Appeals, dated Jan. 29, 2003. Summary of some of Roberts's opinions compiled by Tom Goldstein at his Supreme Court nomination blog. Here is a partial list from oyez.org of cases argued by Roberts before the Supreme Court on behalf of private parties. An interesting piece about his boyhood in Indiana from the...
By Fred Barbash | July 20, 2005; 09:42 AM ET | Comments (1)
Roberts Resources
Here is his opinion in Hedgepeth v. WMATA, the case involving a 12-year-old girl arrested for eating on the Metro. Here is a transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for John G. Roberts dated Jan. 29, 2003....
By Fred Barbash | July 19, 2005; 11:31 PM ET | Comments (6)
Roberts
John Roberts is the nominee. Here are some of his opinions as a judge. Here is his opinion in Hedgepeth v. WMATA, the case involving a woman arrested for eating on the Metro. Here is a transcript of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for John G. Roberts dated Jan. 29, 2003. Here is a profile of Roberts from Tom Goldstein's Supreme Court nomination blog....
By Fred Barbash | July 19, 2005; 07:12 PM ET | Comments (3)
