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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...
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...
As 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...
As a private attorney, Roberts helped a local planning agency uphold regulations barring development around Lake Tahoe. But while working for the first Bush Administration, Roberts helped persuade the Supreme Court in two cases to narrow the grounds on which environmental groups could sue the Federal Government. What has the...
In 1990 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...