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Born in Detroit, Mich., Goodenow got his start on the ice by playing junior hockey before attending Harvard. After earning second-team All-ECAC honors as the squad’s captain in 1974, he enjoyed a brief stint in the International Hockey League before turning to the University of Detroit Law School...
During Senate confirmation hearings in 2003, Roberts stressed that he had no personal issue with applying the precedent of Roe v. Wade, which he called "the settled law of the land." But during his stint as Principal Deputy Solicitor General from 1989 to 1993, Roberts co-authored briefs in two controversial Supreme Court cases, one that upheld federal rules prohibiting clinics that received federal dollars from even discussing abortions and another that helped to successfully defend pro-life protesters who had blocked entry to abortion clinics against charges that they had thereby violated the rights of women. "We continue...
While Deputy Solicitor General in the early 1990s, Roberts co-signed a brief that unsuccessfully argued that a public school should be allowed to include a religious benediction as part of a graduation ceremony. In another case concerning the the role of religion in public life, Roberts fared better, helping prevent a public school from barring a religious group from meeting on its grounds after school. Upcoming Cases: One involves whether the government can prohibit a small Brazilian-American religious sect from importing a hallucinogenic tea (and controlled substance) for use in rituals...
...Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts co-authored two briefs calling for an end to court-supervised desegregation in Oklahoma and Georgia. The U.S. argued successfully in each case that enough progress had been made and that schools could be lifted from orders requiring that they integrate. On the other hand, in 1991 Roberts co-authored a government brief alleging that Mississippi was still overseeing a racially segregated system of public universities; that view was upheld. As for affirmative action, Roberts touched on the issue as a private attorney in 2001, writing a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Adarand...
...Roberts co-wrote the government's brief arguing that a new law criminalizing flag burning was in fact constitutional. But as a private attorney, he successfully helped Soldier of Fortune magazine fight a suit brought by a woman charging that the magazine had been negligent in running an ad that her son-in-law had used to hire a hit man to kill her daughter. Upcoming Cases: One revolves around whether Congress can withhold funding from universities that claim they have a First Amendment right to make it hard for the military to recruit on campus because they view...