(John) Roberts Puts Net Worth at $5.3 Million (USSC nominee)

[UpInArms]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=558&e=10&u=/ap/20050803/ap_on_go_su_co/roberts_finances

WASHINGTON - John Roberts is a multimillion-dollar man, with a fancy golf club membership and some hefty investments, according to a financial statement filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The 83-page document released Tuesday shows Roberts' home in the fashionable Washington suburb of Chevy Chase, Md., is worth $1.3 million. His investment portfolio includes $291,200 in XM Satellite Radio, $264,000 in Dell computers and $106,553 in Texas Instruments.

His net worth is $5.3 million despite the big pay cut he took in 2003 when he left the Washington law firm of Hogan & Hartson, where he was a partner earning in excess of $1 million a year, for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and a salary of $171,800.

Other sources of income this year include $25,000 to teach a seminar on Supreme Court litigation at Georgetown University and $4,500 to teach a course on international trade at the University College London.

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[pimpbot]

1. Hey I own XM stock as well!!

Not nearly that much of course :)

[gmoney]

2. And that doesn't even include graft... (n/t)

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Just another member of the BFEE.

[youspeakmylanguage]

4. ...and he couldn't dress his kids any better than he did?

I mean, if you're that rich, hire a style consultant!

[BlueEyedSon]

5. So wheres the other 3.3 mil? Thats a lot of pocket change....

[pimpbot]

7. Roberts listed a home mortgage of $790,000, at a 30-year fixed rate of 5.6

So he doesn't even own the 1.3 mil house outright... Yea, where is the rest of the money?? Halliburton?

[maxpower]

6. Damn trial lawyers

They are destroying America.....oh wait he's a republican, that makes it okay.

[wli]

8. another Federalist Society fascist bought and paid for by the BFEE

[JDPriestly]

9. A ray of hope.

According to the GOP talking points, Roberts' pro bono work has been to represent indigent criminal defendants, apparently on appeal.

July 21, 2005
GOP Talking Points on John Roberts
Posted by Bob Brigham

http://www.swingstateproject.com/supreme_court/index.php

I suspect that the work he did was appellate and did not bring him in personal contact with indigent people. My greatest concern about Roberts is that he has lived an ivory tower, elitist existence -- from a privileged family to private schools to a chambers of Republican judges, to the White House to the big law firm. Where's the real life experience? What does he know about making ends meet on limited income, about having to choose between taking your child to the doctor or buying the child a pair of shoes? All of the Supreme Court justices are rich and privileged -- the true elite in the country, but some of them seem more down to earth than others. At least Kennedy and Scalia had lots of children and fairly young. You can't avoid some nasty realities if you raise several children. But Roberts? As far as the nasty realities of poverty are concerned, he strikes me as rather ignorant. If I'm wrong, I'll be happy to stand corrected.

[SarahMSmythe]

10. John Roberts

So what? Who cares how much money the guy has or does not have. Kerry had nearly a billion, who cared about that!

[Lost4words]

11. I Care, at 5+ net mill he sure as hell has no idea what I am going through

I didnt like Kerry either, when you are that "comfortable" you cant know what its like to be on the failing to meet ends meet plan.

[Quakerfriend]

12. Did anyone hear the guy on CNN say,

I'm impressed 'cause he (Roberts)"cuts his own grass"?

Kind of shows us just how out of touch these people are!

[Rambis]

13. John Edwards has 11 houses

I got that from my sister law who is married to a freeper. I still don't know what someone has is relevant but... It is reward time for a guy that got * installed as dictator plain and simple.

[geckosfeet]

14. A real man of the people. A pauper in the shrubs world though. nt

[blindpig]

15. Plutocracy

I wonder how many of the players in our government are not millionaires?:evilfrown: