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However, Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried, a former Solicitor General, will be a witness. When reached for comment, Fried referred The Crimson to his written testimony, which is not available at this time...
Roberts went on to work in the Justice Department, serving as Deputy Solicitor General—one of the government’s main lawyers before the Supreme Court—and later had a private practice. By the time President Bush appointed him to the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2002, Roberts had argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court and was known as one of the finest appellate litigators in the land...
...would have heard from Roberts and 30 other witnesses, 15 called by each party. Due to the desire of top senators to have a speedy confirmation hearing, no character witnesses who knew Roberts as a student were to be called. However, Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried, a former Solicitor General, was slated to be a witness...
While Deputy Solicitor General in the early 1990s, Roberts co-signed a brief that unsuccessfully argued that a public school should be allowed to include a religious benediction as part of a graduation ceremony. In another case concerning the the role of religion in public life, Roberts fared better, helping prevent a public school from barring a religious group from meeting on its grounds after school. Upcoming Cases: One involves whether the government can prohibit a small Brazilian-American religious sect from importing a hallucinogenic tea (and controlled substance) for use in rituals...
...Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts co-authored two briefs calling for an end to court-supervised desegregation in Oklahoma and Georgia. The U.S. argued successfully in each case that enough progress had been made and that schools could be lifted from orders requiring that they integrate. On the other hand, in 1991 Roberts co-authored a government brief alleging that Mississippi was still overseeing a racially segregated system of public universities; that view was upheld. As for affirmative action, Roberts touched on the issue as a private attorney in 2001, writing a friend-of-the-court brief in support of Adarand...