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Supreme Court Upholds Lethal Injection Use

"We ... agree that petitioners have not carried their burden of showing that the risk of pain from maladministration of a concededly humane lethal injection protocol, and the failure to adopt untried and untested alternatives, constitute cruel and unusual punishment," Chief Justice John Roberts said in an opinion that garnered only three votes. Four other justices, however, agreed with the outcome.

Schumer to fight new Bush high court picks

Senators were too quick to accept the nominees word that they would respect legal precedents, and too easily impressed with the charm of Roberts and the erudition of Alito, Schumer said. There is no doubt that we were hoodwinked, said Schumer. Well duh.

Old-line Republican warns 'something's in the works' to trigger a police state

Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. "Something's in the works," he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place.

What Chief Justice Roberts Forgot in His First Term: Judicial Modesty

He was modest in some cases, certainly, but generally ones in which criminal defendants, Democrats and other parties conservatives dislike were asking for something. When real estate developers, wealthy campaign contributors and other powerful parties wanted help, he was more inclined to support judicial action, even if it meant trampling on Congress and the states.

The Chief Justice Sets A Standard

In a speech at Georgetown University law school last month that didn't get as much attention as it deserved, Chief Justice John Roberts laid out an approach to deciding cases that could disappoint those who like their court decisions bold and ideological.

Dear Senator Roberts

Deconstructing Senator Pat Roberts' simpering editorial in USA Today.

Waas: Is There A Double Standard On Leak Probes?

Sen. Pat Roberts hates leaks, thinks leakers should be caught and punished - except when he's the leaker.

Roberts on intel probe, it's deja vu all over again

Sen. Pat Roberts has again delayed the investigation not just the failures in intelligence gathering on Iraq but also the ways in which the Bush administration may have misused or manipulated the intelligence it received.

Witnesses leery of testifying in leak investigation

Two witnesses interviewed by the FBI in its probe of classified information leaked from a joint congressional inquiry in 2002 say they are very concerned about cooperating with a Senate Ethics Committee review of the matter because Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) has not recused himself from the review.

High court upholds Oregon assisted-suicide law

"Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people trumped federal authority to regulate doctors. New Chief Justice John Roberts backed the Bush administration, dissenting with the majority for the first time." Huge victory for individual rights. You can see how Roberts would vote on abortion.

Senate confirms John Roberts as chief justice

Bayh says he won't support Roberts nomination