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John Roberts Jr.
“[w]e continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled . . ."
Roberts co-authored an amicus curiae brief filed by the United States in the case of Lee v. Weisman, 505 U.S. 577 (1992), in which he urged the Court to rule that it was constitutional for a public school to sponsor prayer at its graduation ceremonies...It is a tenet of the First Amendment that the State cannot require one of its citizens to forfeit his or her rights and benefits as the price of resisting conformance to a state-sponsored religious practice.
Roberts’s dissent in Rancho Viejo strongly suggested that he thought it would be unconstitutional to apply the Endangered Species Act in this case. By his vote to rehear the case and thus potentially reverse the district court, Roberts indicated that he may well be ready to join the ranks of such right-wing officials as Judge Michael Luttig (who dissented in Gibbs) and Alabama Attorney General William Pryor - nominated by President Bush to the Eleventh Circuit and unilaterally placed on that court by the President through a recess appointment - in their efforts to severely limit the authority of Congress to protect environmental quality as well as the rights and interests of ordinary Americans.
In rejecting the equal protection claim, Roberts held that the law requiring harsher treatment of juveniles was rationally related to “the legitimate goal of promoting parental awareness and involvement with children who commit delinquent acts.” (about a 12 year old who was arrested for eating a frech fry on the Metro)
All taken from this site cuz I'm too lazy to actually write right now...but still think people should read up on who Bush nominated to become Supreme Court Justice.