It's my job to call balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat, he said. Through memos, Roberts matched legal wits with Congress members and retired Supreme Court justices alike on issues ranging from the separation of powers to housing discrimination and tax law. Chief Justice Roberts' Supreme Court arguments alone span a vast set of issues within the Supreme Court's jurisdiction, including admiralty, antitrust, arbitration, environmental law, free speech/religion, health care law, Indian law, bankruptcy, tax, regulation of financial institutions, administrative law, labor law, federal jurisdiction and procedure, interstate commerce, civil rights, and criminal law. He prefers to speak through his court opinions. [3] Later he served as historical advisor to the BBC series People's Century. document.write(lt+"a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" title=\"Click to Play Video\" onClick=\"javascript:popup('/news/releases/2005/09/20050905.v.html','360','330')\" onMouseOut=\"window.status=' ';return true\" onMouseOver=\"window.status='Click to Play Video';return true\" "+gt+"President Nominates Judge Roberts to be Supreme Court Chief Justice"+lt+"/a"+gt+""); WebJohn Roberts (born 1973) is a British businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist. When Roberts' The Mythology of the Secret Societies was republished in 2008, the back cover contained the following message: "We are living at a time when conspiracy theories are rife and the notion of secret plans for world domination under the guise of religious cults or secret societies is perhaps considered more seriously than ever.