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- He has been described as having a moderate conservative judicial philosophy, though he is primarily an institutionalist. For his willingness to work with the Supreme Court 's liberal bloc, Roberts has been regarded as a swing vote.
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Feb 4, 2021 · In his article, Professor Walton addresses international law in the United States and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts's judicial philosophy. Chief Justice John Roberts has penned majority opinions in several landmark cases directly addressing important international law issues.
- S. Ernie Walton
- 2016
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- Kiel Brennan-Marquez
- THE PHILOSOPHY AND JURISPRUDENCE OF CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS
- B. Law’s Outer Boundaries
- RESUSCITATING THE UMPIRE METAPHOR
- THE JURISPRUDENCE OF CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS
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Kiel Brennan-Marquez* Abstract A thicket of commentary has blossomed around the figure of Chief Justice Roberts. The bulk of it, however, has either focused exclusively on his role in the 2011 term or has lumped him in uncritically with the Court’s conservative wing. In response, this Article takes a wider view of his tenure, arguing that Chief Jus...
The examples in the last section showcased the Chief Justice’s penchant for outlining constitutional lessons—often of a structural nature—before delving into his substantive arguments. These lessons served to preface Chief Justice Roberts’s analysis, setting up the stakes of the question in advance of his answer being worked out. This section exami...
The last Part was designed to showcase the Chief Justice’s penchant for infusing his opinions with lessons about law’s constitutive limitations: its internal structure and its external boundaries. In this Part, I connect Chief Justice Roberts’s civic lessons to another aspect his judicial persona: the infamous umpire metaphor from his confirmation ...
So far, we have examined two data points: Chief Justice Roberts’s civics lessons and his umpire metaphor, both of which shed light on his formal understanding of what it is to judge—and presumably, on his self-understanding as a judge. The data points, moreover, displayed the same dialectical pattern. In each, law emerged as simultaneously limited ...
- Kiel Brennan-Marquez
- 2014
He has been described as having a moderate conservative judicial philosophy, though he is primarily an institutionalist. [3][4] For his willingness to work with the Supreme Court 's liberal bloc, Roberts has been regarded as a swing vote. [5][6]
Jul 7, 2015 · First, Chief Justice Roberts has penned majority opinions in several landmark cases directly addressing important international law issues. Second, cases involving international law serve as an excellent window into a Justice’s judicial philosophy.
- S. Ernie Walton
- 2015
Unlike justices such as Stephen Breyer and the late Antonin Scalia, Roberts has never systematically articulated a general judicial philosophy, unless you count his famous statement...
Sep 12, 2018 · Although he does not easily fit into a particular philosophical category, Roberts has assembled varying methods, resulting in a type of “mosaic” judicial philosophy. Some even call it strategic.1 In 1993, by the age of 37, the now-Chief Justice John G. Roberts was arguing before
Apr 2, 2014 · Before his confirmation, Roberts' brief stint on the U.S. Court of Appeals didn't provide an extensive case history to determine his judicial philosophy. Roberts has denied...
