John Robert has been described as having a conservative judicial philosophy but, above all, as an institutionalist.
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13 Facts About John Robert
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John Robert has shown a willingness to work with the Supreme Court's liberal bloc, and after the retirement of Anthony Kennedy in 2018, he has been regarded as the primary swing vote on the Court.
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John Robert studied history at Harvard University and then attended Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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John Robert's father had Irish and Welsh ancestry, and his mother was a descendant of Slovak immigrants from Szepes, Hungary.
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John Robert has an elder sister, Kathy, and two younger sisters, Peggy and Barbara.
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John Robert participated in choir and drama, and co-edited the school newspaper.
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John Robert became the head of the firm's appellate practice, and became an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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John Robert's sued, alleging that an adult would have only received a citation for the same offense, while children must be detained until parents are notified.
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John Robert appears to place great stock in the process-oriented tools and doctrinal rules that guard against the aggregation of judicial power and keep judicial discretion in check: jurisdictional limits, structural federalism, textualism, and the procedural rules that govern the scope of judicial review.
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John Robert said the social expectation test was flawed because the Fourth Amendment protects a legitimate expectation of privacy, not social expectations.
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John Robert sees such plans as discrimination in violation of the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause and Brown v Board of Education.
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