Roberts's gay confirmation moments.During his expected decades-long tenure as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr. will likely face some potentially groundbreaking gay rights cases. How will he vote? We have only his brief confirmation hearings as a guide: When asked whether he thought the Constitution gives Congress the power to ban employment discrimination against gays and lesbians, Roberts demurred, saying, "Personally, I believe that everybody should be treated with dignity in this area, and respect. But the legal question of Congress's authority to address that, though, is one that could come before the courts." When asked if he would have declined to help gay rights activists win the landmark A structure that has significant historical, architectural, or cultural meaning and that has been given legal protection from alteration and destruction. Although landmark preservation laws vary by city and state, they have the same basic purpose: to keep landmarks as close Romer v. Evans Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620, 116 S. Ct. 1620, 134 L. Ed. 2d 855 (1996), is a landmark and controversial decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional an amendment to the Colorado state constitution that prohibited state and local governments from enacting any case in 1996 if he had found it morally objectionable, Roberts said, "I think it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have right that if there had been something morally objectionable, I suppose I would have. But it was my view that lawyers don't don't 1. Contraction of do not. 2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not. n. A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts. stand in the shoes shoe n. 1. A durable covering for the human foot, made of leather or similar material with a rigid sole and heel, usually extending no higher than the ankle. 2. A horseshoe. 3. of their clients and that good lawyers can give advice and argue any side of a case." |
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