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Enough about the 'T-word' - health care ruling is good for businesses

...wrong.The court has ruled. The law has been upheld. The majority opinion was written by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts. I suggest it's time for Alaska's political leaders to tone down their rhetoric and start figuring out how to make...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-02/enough-about-t-word-health-care-rulin
Opinion
The danger of Supreme Court deep throats

...work together.Jan Crawford of CBS News earlier this month reported based on two inside sources that Chief Justice John Roberts initially voted to strike down the Affordable Care Act then changed his mind, leading a 5-4 majority to uphold it...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-17/danger-supreme-court-deep-throats
Opinion
Chief justice is not a neutral umpire

Chief Justice John Roberts is brilliant and quotable.That doesn't necessarily make him right.Plenty of reports about his majority opinion upholding...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-09/chief-justice-not-neutral-umpire
Opinion
Appeals court upholds key voting rights provision

...time.The appellate ruling could clear the way for the case to be appealed to the Supreme Court where Chief Justice John Roberts suggested in a 2009 opinion that the court's conservative majority might be receptive to a challenge to section 5...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-05-20/appeals-court-upholds-key-voting-rights
State
4 GOP-appointed justices control health law's fate

...law's challengers believe they can attract the other four Republicans to their side. The group includes Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, the two appointees of President George W. Bush who have swung the court to the right in...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2012-03-19/4-gop-appointed-justices-control-heal
Not For Web
Begich, Kawasaki: Corporations should not influence elections

...constitutional rights as people. That's what the Sanders resolution proposes."The Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts found that Citizens United, a nonprofit corporation, had the right to air a movie about Hillary Rodham Clinton during...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-01-09/begich-kawasaki-corporations-should-not
State
America needs its liars

...objectively either better or worse than fibbing about military service? It's OK not to know, because Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't either. According to the Associated Press, he asked the government attorney arguing in favor of the law...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-02-23/america-needs-its-liars
Opinion
America needs its liars

...objectively either better or worse than fibbing about military service? It's OK not to know, because Chief Justice John Roberts doesn't either. According to the Associated Press, he asked the government attorney arguing in favor of the law...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-02-23/america-needs-its-liars-0
Opinion
Think the Supreme Court will prove to be dispassionate on Obamacare? Think again

...that the health reform law deserves to be upheld, with all Republican appointees signaling their assent. But despite John Roberts' vow, during confirmation hearings, to respect precedent, he has flagrantly ignored it in some big cases, most...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-09/think-supreme-court-will-prove-be-dis
Opinion
Roberts is well qualified for court

Judge John Roberts has everything necessary to become a Supreme Court justice - a keen mind, years of relevant experience and the near-universal...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072505/let_20050725003.shtml
Opinion

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