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On September 29, 2005, John G. Roberts, Jr. was confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States.

BIOGRAPHY

John G. Roberts, Jr., was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 1955.

He grew up in Indiana, where he captained his high school football team and worked summers in a steel mill to help pay his way through college.

In 1976, he received his bachelor's degree from Harvard, summa cum laude , after only three years.

He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated magna cum laude in 1979.

The year after he graduated from law school, Roberts clerked for Justice Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

• Friendly is acclaimed as the preeminent appellate judge of his generation. Chief Justice Warren Burger said of Justice Friendly that he could not identify “any judicial colleague more highly qualified to have come to the Supreme Court of the United States than Henry Friendly.” (Jeffrey B. M
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  Chief Justice John Roberts

  Selected Opinions by Chief Justice Roberts:

  Trump v. United States (2024)

  Topic:Separation of Powers

  Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts.

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  Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024)

  Topic:Government Agencies

  Chevron is overruled. Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority. Courts may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.

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  United States v. Rahimi (2024)

  Topic:Gun Rights

  An individual found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical safety of another person may be temporarily disarmed consistent with the Second Amendment.

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  John Roberts (2005-present)

  Biographical Data

  Birth, Residence, and Family

  John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice of the United States, was born in Buffalo, New York, January 27, 1955. He married Jane Marie Sullivan in 1996; they have two children—Josephine and John.

  Education

  He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1976 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1979.

  Law Clerkship

  He served as a law clerk for Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1979–1980 and as a law clerk for then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1980 Term.

  Government Service

  He was Special Assistant to the Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice from 1981–1982, Associate Counsel to President Ronald Reagan, White House Counsel’s Office from 1982–1986, and Principal Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice from 1989–1993.

  Law Practice

  From 1986–1989 and 1993–2003, he practiced law in Washington, D.C.

  Judicial Offices