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Roberts was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 27, 1955, the son of John Glover (Jack) Roberts, Sr. (1928–2008) and Rosemary
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In 1973, Roberts graduated at the top of his high school class from La Lumiere School, a Catholic boarding school in LaPorte, Indiana.
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He served as a law clerk for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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law clerk for the Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court of the United States
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He was Special Assistant to the Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice from 1981–1982
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Associate Counsel to President Ronald Reagan, White House Counsel’s Office from 1982–1986
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From 1986–1989 and 1993–2003, he practiced law in Washington, D.C
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Principal Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice from 1989–1993
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He was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2003
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On September 29, Roberts was confirmed as Chief Justice by a full Senate vote of 78–22. He was nominated by George W. bush.
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On January 17, 2006, Roberts dissented in Gonzales v. Oregon, which held that the Controlled Substances Act does not allow the United States Attorney General to prohibit physicians from prescribing drugs for the assisted suicide of the terminally ill as permitted by an Oregon law.
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On March 6, 2006, Roberts wrote the unanimous decision in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights that colleges accepting federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, despite university objections to the Clinton administration-initiated "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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In Gonzales v. Carhart, the only significant abortion case the court has decided since Roberts joined, he voted with the majority to uphold the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
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First Options v. Kaplan
Adams v. Robertson
Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government
Feltner v. Columbia Pictures Television, Inc.
National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Smith
Rice v. Cayetano