Harvard Law grad. John Roberts nominated Supreme Court

Harvard Law grad John Roberts nominated to fill Supreme Court vacancy
Post Date: July 19, 2005 -- 9 p.m.

John Roberts (AP photo)

John G. Roberts Jr.

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President Bush has nominated Harvard Law graduate John G. Roberts Jr., a federal appeals court judge, to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created earlier this month when Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement. Roberts graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979 and from Harvard College in 1976.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Roberts will be the sixth justice on the current court to attend Harvard Law School. The other alumni justices are Anthony Kennedy '61, Antonin Scalia '60, David Souter '66, Stephen Breyer '64, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who attended HLS from 1956 to 1958 and ultimately received her degree from Columbia Law School. Throughout history, numerous Harvard Law School graduates and faculty members have served on the high court, including Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, William Brennan, Harry Blackmun and others.

"John Roberts has devoted his entire professional life to the cause of justice," said Bush during the announcement ceremony at the White House, "and is widely admired for his intellect his sound judgment and his personal decency."

Roberts called it "both an honor and very humbling to be nominated to serve on the Supreme Court." He added that when he argued cases before the court in the past he "always got a lump in my throat whenever I walked up those marble steps."

In 2003, Bush appointed Roberts to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Roberts previously served as the principal deputy solicitor general in the administration of President George H.W. Bush and as a lawyer in the Reagan White House. He has also worked in private practice.

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Official transcript of ceremony announcing the appointment of John Roberts
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050719-7.html

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Roberts was born in Buffalo, New York. Roberts's family moved to Indiana when Roberts was in second grade. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 and received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review) in 1979.

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John G. Roberts Jr.
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Bush Nominates John G. Roberts for U.S. Supreme Court
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July 19, 2005

US President George W. Bush today announced Justice John G. Roberts Jr. as his pick to fill the Supreme Court void caused by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Roberts is known as a strong conservative, but is nevertheless endorsed by many from both parties. At 50 years of age, if confirmed, he will be the youngest judge on the court, and is expected to be able to serve 30 years or more. He was appointed to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2003 by the President
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