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.
- From the majority opinion in the Seattle School District case (2007-06-28) [1]
- 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.
- United States v. Stevens, 559 U.S. ___, 130 S.Ct. 1577 (2010) (Opinion of the Court).
