John Roberts A Conservative Icon Appointed by Reagan

John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, has had a distinguished legal career, culminating with his appointment to the nation's highest court. A 1985 memo indicates that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts counseled President Ronald Reagan to leave open the question of whether AIDS can be transmitted ... Bush nominated John Roberts to replace his former boss as chief justice. The White House released fifteen thousand pages of records documenting ... Full text and audio mp3 John G. Roberts - Opening Address Before the Senate Judiciary Committee on USSC Nomination. Roberts, Jr., considered by Fox News to be a conservative judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, was nominated July 19, ... President George H.W. Bush nominated Justice Roberts to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1992, but the nomination expired after Bush lost re- ... Roberts, who had served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and was in private practice at the time, assisted George W. Bush's ... In 2005 Roberts was nominated to replace Sandra Day O'Connor, who was retiring from the Supreme Court. When Chief Justice Rehnquist died two weeks later, ... In the early 1980s, a young John Roberts was working as a lawyer in President Ronald Reagan's administration, crafting legal and ... In 2003, Bush appointed Roberts to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. ... Bush and as a lawyer in the Reagan White House. He ...