John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer
and jurist who serves as Chief Justice of the United States. Roberts
has authored the majority opinion in several landmark cases, including
Shelby County v. Holder, National Federation of Independent Business
v. Sebelius, King v. Burwell, Department of Commerce v. New York, and
Trump v. NAACP (DACA). He has been described as having a conservative
judicial philosophy but has shown a willingness to work with the
Supreme Court's liberal bloc, and since the retirement of Anthony
Kennedy in 2018 has come to be regarded as a key swing vote on the
Court. Roberts presided over the impeachment trial of President Donald
Trump.Roberts grew up in northwestern Indiana and was educated in
Catholic schools. He studied history at Harvard College and then
attended Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the
Harvard Law Review. He served as a law clerk for Circuit Judge Henry
Friendly and then-associate justice William Rehnquist before taking a
position in the attorney general's office during the Reagan
Administration. He went on to serve the Reagan administration and the
George H. W. Bush administration in the Department of Justice and the
Office of the White House Counsel, before spending 14 years in private
law practice. During this time, he argued 39 cases before the Supreme
Court. Notably, he represented 19 states in United States v. Microsoft
Corp.In 2003, Roberts was appointed as a judge of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by George W. Bush. During his two-year
tenure on the D.C. Circuit, Roberts authored 49 opinions, eliciting
two dissents from other judges, and authoring three dissents of his
own. In 2005, Roberts was nominated to be an associate justice of the
Supreme Court, initially to succeed the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor.
When Rehnquist, the then-incumbent Chief Justice, died before
Roberts's confirmation hearings began, Bush instead nominated Roberts
for Chief Justice and later appointed Samuel Alito as Associate
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