John Roberts, Donald Trump
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 president’s fate.
Opinion
The supremely partisan court of Chief Justice Roberts
The Roberts court has become so political that it is driving itself to term limits. As FDR put it in a Fireside Chat to the nation on March 9, 1937: “We have, therefore, reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the court and the court from itself.
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.
Opinion
Leaked Supreme Court Memos Show Roberts Knows Exactly How Bad Alito Is
A new report reveals how Chief Justice John Roberts tried to protect Samuel Alito as he faced backlash amid his flag scandal.
Chief Justice John Roberts targeted by Supreme Court leak
John Roberts ... the high court’s legitimacy. Although he sustained some blowback in the wake of the high court overturning abortion access precedent under Roe, the chief justice was spared ...
Opinion
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 realities of the country. As revealed by my Times colleagues Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak in their remarkable,
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.
Leaked SCOTUS memo exposes Roberts’ role in shaping bombshell Trump immunity ruling
Progressive legal expert Elie Mystal, in his blistering condemnation of the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial 6-3 immunity ruling in Trump v. the United States, has made a major distinction between "qualified immunity" and "absolute immunity.
Leaked memo adds to speculation of Justice Roberts' MAGA stance
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has long been viewed as a moderate swing vote on the nation's highest court. However ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Roberts Fired Alito From Writing Key SCOTUS Ruling Four Days After Flag Scandal
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts sidelined one of the most conservative members of the high court on a pending case ...