John G. Roberts

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John Glover Roberts (born January 27, 1955) is the seventeenth and current Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

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  • The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
  • But the First Amendment protects against the Government; it does not leave us at the mercy of noblesse oblige. We would not uphold an unconstitutional statute merely because the Government promised to use it responsibly. [...] The Government’s assurance that it will apply [a statutory provision] more restrictively than its language provides is pertinent only as an implicit acknowledgment of the potential constitutional problems with a more natural reading.

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