In year-end report, Roberts aims at recusal critics 
By Kimberly Atkins
POSTED: January 5, 2012
Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, justices, recusal, U.S. supreme court
Chief Justice John G. Roberts used his annual year-end report to rebuff assertions by critics that some justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have flouted their ethical obligations by deciding not to recuse themselves from certain cases.
“I have complete confidence in the capability of my colleagues to determine when recusal is warranted,” Chief Justice Roberts [...]
Roberts, Kagan win awards for crafty use of the pen
By Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: December 23, 2011
Tags: award, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, opinions, U.S. supreme court
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts sometimes likes to have a little fun when he writes opinions. Now, his writing has earned him an award from the popular quarterly journal “The Green Bag.”
As The BLT’s Tony Mauro reports, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan both won legal writing awards from the publication.
Chief [...]
With Roberts gone, informality creeps into High Court
By Mark Sherman
POSTED: December 1, 2011
Tags: arguments, Chief Justice John Roberts, informality, U.S. supreme court
WASHINGTON — The chief justice excuses himself for a mere hour and the U.S. Supreme Court starts sounding like a schoolyard. At a very good school, but still.
It’s not every day that one lawyer arguing before the justices refers to another as “my buddy.” Or that the government’s lawyer winds up his argument by telling [...]
Chief Justice Roberts invokes Hendrix
By The Associated Press
POSTED: October 6, 2011
Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, Congress, Copyright protection, Jimi Hendrix, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg invoked Aaron Copland. The chief justice countered with Jimi Hendrix. The high court’s generational divide was on display Wednesday as the justices heard arguments about whether Congress acted properly in extending U.S. copyright protection to millions of works …
Comedy hour with Justices Roberts and Scalia
By Kimberly Atkins
POSTED: March 4, 2011
Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, humor, Justice Antonin Scalia, oral arguments, SCOTUS
Despite the disturbing facts underlying the case Camreta v. Greene, oral arguments at the Supreme Court this week were a barrel of laughs, care of Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia.
Judges react to Roberts’ report
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: January 4, 2011
Tags: caseloads, Chief Justice John Roberts, Judicial vacancies, SCOTUS
The nationwide problem of judicial vacancies is a major focus in the year-end report of U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts. He outlines the increasing caseloads and how the judiciary depends on its judges …
Chief justice urges progress naming judges
By The Associated Press
POSTED: January 3, 2011
Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, Democrats, federal judges, gridlock, nominations, Republicans, Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting federal judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political gridlock of judicial nominations in the Senate.
Stocks sold, Roberts to hear Pfizer cases
By Mark Sherman
POSTED: September 29, 2010
Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, Pfizer, SCOTUS, stocks
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chief Justice John Roberts has sold his shares of Pfizer Inc., a move that allows him to participate in two pending Supreme Court cases involving the pharmaceutical maker.
Did Roberts attend his last State of the Union?
By Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: March 10, 2010
Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, Congress, judicial branch, State of the Union
When the president gives his next State of the Union address, don’t be surprised if the nation’s chief justice is not sitting front and center.
