John Roberts has been the Chief Justice of the United States since 2005. Born in Buffalo, New York, in 1955, he studied at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, clerked for Judge Henry Friendly and then for Justice William Rehnquist, and worked in the Reagan administration before serving on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2003. President George W. Bush nominated him to the Supreme Court in September 2005 to succeed William Rehnquist. He was confirmed by the Senate on September 29, 2005.
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was born in Buffalo, New York, January 27, 1955. He married
Roberts, John Glover, Jr. (Federal Judicial Center biography)
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013)
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Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court
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