The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chief justice \Chief" jus"tice\ The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court.
Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor.
Chief Justice of the United States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, and Highest judicial officer of the republic.
Wikipedia
The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system (the judicial branch of the federal government of the United States) and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. From 1789 until 1866, the office was known as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The Chief Justice is the highest judicial officer in the country, and acts as a chief administrative officer for the federal courts and, as head of the Judicial Conference of the United States, appoints the director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. The Chief Justice also serves as a spokesperson for the judicial branch.
The Chief Justice leads the business of the Supreme Court and presides over oral arguments. When the court renders an opinion, the Chief Justice—when in the majority—decides who writes the court's opinion. The Chief Justice also has significant agenda-setting power over the court's meetings. In the case of an impeachment of a President of the United States, which has occurred twice, the Chief Justice presides over the trial in the Senate. In modern tradition, the Chief Justice also has the ceremonial duty of administering the oath of office of the President of the United States.
The first Chief Justice was John Jay. The 17th and current Chief Justice is John G. Roberts, Jr.
Usage examples of "chief justice of the united states".
Jason Merlin, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, finished the swearing-in oath, and the-new President shook his hand and stepped up to the microphone.
Taney was several years older than the Constitution, whose interpreter he had been for a quarter century, as the fifth Chief Justice of the United States.
Some weeks before Adams had appointed the secretary of state John Marshall chief justice of the United States.
That morning, October 12, the spirit of the Chief Justice of the United States, Roger B.
He had gotten Sara fired, was being set up for murdering his brother and had just told off the chief justice of the United States.
John Marshall, his friend and sometime biographer (and later chief justice of the United States), said of him that he had an innate and unassuming modesty that was happily blended with a high and correct sense of personal dignity, and with a just consciousness of the respect which is due to station.
The Chief Justice of the United States was one year older than the nation.