Roberts argued cases before the Court as a lawyerīorn in Buffalo, New York, and raised in Long Beach, Indiana, John Roberts earned both undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard, where he served as managing editor of the law review. However, he has had an indelible impact on the First Amendment in his years on the Court. (1955– ), the 17th chief justice of the United States, did not have an extensive track record revealing his personal or judicial views about First Amendment issues when he was sworn in on September 29, 2005. It provides access to information and allows the people in a free society to make a judgment about what their government is up to.' (Photo via The Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, public domain) It’s not just there because the framers thought this was in general a good idea. has been sensitive to free speech concerns, ruling that the speech of picketers at a slain serviceman's funeral was protected, and authoring opinions striking down campaign finance restrictions as restrictions on free speech.

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