John Roberts

CBS News White House correspondent John Roberts sent an e-mail to colleagues on Wednesday jokingly demanding that he be addressed henceforth as "your honor." A night earlier, CBS viewers had the disorienting experience of seeing a special report on President Bush nominating federal court Judge John Roberts to the Supreme Court -- anchored by John Roberts.

A man outside a Commerce topless club attempted to run over security guards with his vehicle early Friday morning but was shot multiple times by the guards, sheriff's officials said. The exchange occurred just after midnight at Nicola's, a topless club on the 900 block of S. Gerhart Avenue , according to Lt. John Roberts of the Los Angeles County sheriff's East Los Angeles station. Roberts said the suspect was asked to leave the club, and he subsequently attempted to ram about four security guards with his vehicle.

Judge John G. Roberts Jr. has been called the stealth nominee for the Supreme Court -- a nominee specifically selected because he has few public positions on controversial issues such as abortion. However, in a meeting last week, Roberts briefly lifted the carefully maintained curtain over his personal views.

WASHINGTON - Attacks on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as a traitor to conservative ideals for voting to uphold most of President Obama's healthcare law reflect a lack of knowledge about how the American justice system works, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said. "It's unfortunate because I think comments like that demonstrate only too well a lack of understanding that some of our citizens have about the role of the judicial branch," O'Connor said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday in response to a question from ChairmanPatrick J. Leahy (D-Vt)

For the 26-year-old John G. Roberts Jr., the first year of the Reagan administration saw the dawn of a new era for conservatives, and he fit right in. In memo after memo, the young Justice Department lawyer made clear he was a committed conservative, ready to help his bosses reconsider laws on civil rights, abortion, sex discrimination and religion. More recently, the 50-year-old Judge Roberts has talked about the importance of modesty and stability on the bench.

From raw material he buys at lumberyards and tools purchased at hardware stores, John Roberts creates works of art. * It's not the wild, trendy art of discarded materials welded together that is often displayed in galleries or mounted in front of office buildings. Rather, it's a simple kind of folksy art that Roberts figures will never make its way into a museum. Not that he much cares. He starts with a piece of wood, part of the trunk from an incense cedar tree, to be exact.

Regarding Mary Rourke's "The Best Defense" ( Oct. 27 ), it occurs to me that an accompanying piece might be written to explain when and how the Coliseum was flopped over. John Roberts Orange

Jerry K. Prinds has been promoted to director of franchise sales at Foodmaker's Jack in the Box restaurants division. John Roberts has joined Foodmaker as manager of corporate tax compliance in the tax services department.

Who would President Bush pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor? Appellate Judge John G. Roberts Jr. was anything but a safe guess as the president faced enormous pressure to appoint a woman, a Latino or at least someone with long judicial experience. (No less than Laura Bush told NBC on July 12, "I would really like for him to name another woman," and appellate judges Edith Jones and Edith Brown Clement were reportedly in the running.

In his article on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' conservative activism against the expansion of the Voting Rights Act in 1982 (Opinion, Aug. 3), Richard L. Hasen might have added that the House rejected Roberts' position by a 389-24 vote, and the Senate by 85 to 8. Roberts was an extreme opponent of minority voting rights in 1982. Does anyone honestly believe he will vote differently on the high court? MORGAN KOUSSER Professor of History and Social Science, Caltech

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's surprise healthcare ruling was a lift for President Obama, preventing what would have been an embarrassing setback in an election year. And it came from an unexpected source - a conservative jurist whose confirmation Obama voted against as a senator. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s majority opinion could well alter voter attitudes on a landmark piece of social legislation that, up to now, has been dimly understood and largely unpopular. At the very least, it enables the president to go before the voters in November with his signature legislative achievement intact.

WASHINGTON - Led by a chief justice who some conservatives immediately branded a turncoat, the Supreme Court upheld most of President Obama's healthcare law Thursday, resolving a high-stakes constitutional clash not seen in decades and handing Obama a victory that surprised many in Washington. Chief Justice John G. RobertsJr.and the four liberal justices joined to uphold the Democrats' most ambitious social legislation in a generation. The unpopular requirement that everyone buy health insurance or pay a penalty - likened by detractors to a rule that everyone purchase broccoli - was unconstitutional as a mandate, Roberts said, but valid as long as it was simply considered a tax. "We do not consider whether the act embodies sound policies," wrote Roberts, a conservative appointed to the court by PresidentGeorge W. Bushin 2005.

Word had barely come down that the Supreme Court majority was upholding the Affordable Care Act when incensed conservatives began printing up “Impeach John Roberts” T-shirts and a hacker had altered the chief justice's title on his Wikipedia page to “Chief Traitor of the United States.” On a freshly minted “Impeach John Roberts” Facebook page, one tea party “patriot” wrote, “Welcome to fascism. Thanks to this horrible decision from the 4 liberal justices and John Roberts there is zero limit to what the government can force us to do.” Outside of the perpetually alarmed right wing loony bin, however, Roberts was receiving praise for acting as the fair umpire he promised to be when he was confirmed by the Senate.

The first day of a big week for the third branch of government brought a ruling on Arizona's immigration law that was less than satisfying for Justice Antonin Scalia and the Rush Limbaugh wing of the U.S. Supreme Court. A five-vote majority that included Chief JusticeJohn G. Roberts Jr.struck down all but one provision of the controversial statute, asserting that the federal government has preeminent authority for setting immigration policy. They did leave intact the most controversial element of Arizona's disputed law -- the mandate placed on local police to determine the immigration status of anyone detained for other violations if there is reason to suspect that person is in the country illegally -- but they ruled that taking further steps to kick undocumented persons out of the country or to keep them from seeking work or require that they carry documentation of citizenship are not powers allocated to the states.  Scalia scoffed at this.

Some conservatives are in a mild panic about the possibility that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. will succumb to pressure from Democrats and the liberal media to uphold "Obamacare. " This from a Wall Street Journal editorial: "You can tell the Supreme Court is getting closer to its historic Obamacare ruling because the left is making one last attempt to intimidate the justices. The latest effort includes taunting Chief Justice John Roberts that if the court overturns any of the law, he'll forever be defined as a partisan 'activist.' " Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker makes the same point, adding a literary reference: "Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate [that word again!

As my colleague David Savage reports, the Supreme Court wasn't very hospitable to the Obama administration's argument that Arizona's infamous Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act unconstitutionally infringed on federal authority over immigration. Worse than that, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. inadvertently (we hope) provided opponents of illegal immigration with a snazzy sound bite. Section 2(B) of the Arizona law provides that “[f]or any lawful stop, detention or arrest made” by Arizona law enforcement, “where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien and is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person.” It also states that “[t]

A man outside a Commerce topless club attempted to run over security guards with his vehicle early Friday morning but was shot multiple times by the guards, sheriff's officials said. The exchange occurred just after midnight at Nicola's, a topless club on the 900 block of S. Gerhart Avenue , according to Lt. John Roberts of the Los Angeles County sheriff's East Los Angeles station. Roberts said the suspect was asked to leave the club, and he subsequently attempted to ram about four security guards with his vehicle.

In rebuttal to John Roberts' letter, I would like to point out that, in fact, Elisabeth Shue never did appear nude in "Link" (Saturday Letters, Aug. 1). A body double, at her insistence, was used in the sequence (which only lasted a few seconds, anyway). A simple check of the credits would have made this clear to Roberts. I find it unfortunate that, in an era with an overwhelming lack of positive role models (i.e. moral, principled individuals), Roberts would take the time and trouble to attempt to impugn the dignity of an individual who seems to be striving for just such an honorable role.

Five Chiefs A Supreme Court Memoir John Paul Stevens Little Brown: 292 pp., $24.99 There is something about the dignity of the Supreme Court that apparently causes its justices to adjust its realities in their writings. Chief Justice Earl Warren, the first chief to write an autobiography (though he died before finishing it), insisted that there had never been any disagreement among his colleagues over Brown vs. Board of Education; that was quaint but false. Justice Stephen Breyer's most recent book held that the brethren "maintain good relations with one another" no matter how deep their differences; that too is a bit hard to believe.