Opinion
John Roberts’ MAGA conversion: How Donald Trump remade the Supreme Court in his image
The Times notes that he had originally assigned the opinion to be written by Justice Samuel Alito. But, after the revelation that Alito had flown an American flag upside down to symbolize solidarity with those who had stormed the capital, Robert again sprang into action. He benched Alito and wrote the opinion favoring the insurrectionists himself.
Chief Justice John Roberts targeted by Supreme Court leak
Chief Justice John Roberts became the target of the latest batch of leaks related to the Supreme Court this week, prompting criticism from center-left commentators about Roberts’s apparent efforts to find consensus on cases involving former President Donald Trump.
How John Roberts Went Full MAGA
A revealing article in The New York Times details how the chief justice put his thumb on the scale for Trump to keep him on the ballot and out of jail.
Chief Justice John Roberts Almost Had Me Fooled
Kudos to The New York Times for its reporting on how exactly he put the thumb on the scale in Trump's immunity case.
The Left comes for John Roberts
Last February,” the story begins, “Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. sent his eight Supreme Court colleagues a confidential memo that radiated frustration and certainty.” A confidential memo you say?
John Roberts, Protector of the Presidency
He has turned out to be something grander — a defender of the presidency unrivaled in the history of the federal judiciary. That is the impression we take from the Times’s latest foray into the supposed perfidy of the Roberts Court.
Durbin pressed Roberts in person to enact binding Supreme Court ethics code
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) directly pressed Chief Justice John Roberts on the need for ...
US Supreme Court's Roberts hears key Democrat's call for enforceable ethics code
The Democratic chair of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday argued during a closed-door federal judiciary meeting ...
How Roberts Shaped Trump’s Supreme Court Winning Streak
Behind the scenes, the chief justice molded three momentous Jan. 6 and election cases that helped determine the former ...
Politics are playing a bigger role in Supreme Court decisions and John Roberts is pulling the lever
Chief Justice historically has tried to keep the Supreme Court out of politically charged discourse but that changed this ...
We Helped John Roberts Construct His Image as a Centrist. We Were So Wrong.
A singular revelation in the Times’ reporting is a memo Roberts produced in February of 2024, after a cross-ideological panel ...
In the Trump Era, the Supreme Court Can’t ‘Soar Above Politics’
One has to wonder, given how frequently the Supreme Court’s chief justice seems removed from the social and political ...
John Roberts Gets His Turn in the Progressive Dock
Leaks from inside the Supreme Court target the Chief Justice in the Trump cases.
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Samuel Alito's Role in Jan 6 Ruling Questioned after John Roberts Memo Leak
Questions have been raised regarding U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's involvement in a ruling related to January 6 defendants in the wake of details around Chief Justice John Roberts' ...