John Roberts Reagan's Conservative Icon

From 1982 until 1986, Chief Justice Roberts served in the White House as Associate Counsel to President Ronald Reagan. ... Bush nominated Roberts for a seat on ... Most recently, in 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated then-. Associate Justice William H. ... successor) to President G.W. Bush's nomination of John Roberts ... Rehnquist, appointed by Richard Nixon in 1972, was, in his first decade as a Justice, almost a fringe right-wing figure on the Court, which was ... Bush in 2005, and he was, back then, thought to be a reliable product of the conservative legal movement. Over the years, he occasionally ... Roberts, Jr., a U.S. appellate court judge. On September 6, President George W. Bush withdrew the Roberts nomination for the O'Connor seat and instead nominated ... Appointed by President George W. Bush, Chief Justice John Roberts first presided over the Court on October 3, 2005. Some decisions of the Roberts Court have ... Bork by President Reagan in 1987, John G. Roberts, Jr ., nominated by President George W. Bush in 2005 (his nomination to Associate Justice was ... John G. Roberts, Jr., 17th chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Nominated as chief justice by President George W. Bush, he was confirmed by the ... Here was the United States, the most powerful entity in the world, aligned against my client, and yet all I had to do was convince the Court that I was right on ... Despite being nominated by George W. Bush and despite his previous job as a clerk for conservative stalwart William Rehnquist, Roberts has few ...