During Supreme Court opinions Thursday, Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion in an asylum case, appeared to rebut Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote the dissent. The move was highly unusual — and on Friday there was a coda.
Judge Duncan is the kind of judge Americans should celebrate: faithful to the law, gifted in intellect, and humble in the position he holds.
Image: Chief Justice John Roberts. Credit: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff via Flickr , CC BY 2.0 . Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The Supreme Court’s chief justice seems to have something other than the Constitution as his top priority.
The extraordinary public apology highlights rifts on the court dominated by a 6-3 conservative majority.
If anyone’s evoking ‘personal hostility,’ it’s rogue judges allowing their animus toward Trump to steer the outcome of cases before them. Shawn Fleetwood for The Federalist Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is back in the news after publicly commenting on “hostility” toward federal judges. The remarks came on Tuesday when the chief justice was […] The post Roberts Is More Bothered By Trump’s Attacks On Judges Than Judges’ Attacks On The Constitution appeared first on StoneZone .
If anyone’s evoking ‘personal hostility,’ it’s rogue judges allowing their animus toward Trump to steer the outcome of cases before them. Shawn Fleetwood for The Federalist Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is back in the news after publicly commenting on “hostility” toward federal judges. The remarks came on Tuesday when the chief justice was interviewed by Senior District Judge Lee Rosenthal at a Rice University event . During her line of questioning, Rosenthal noted Roberts’ past acknowledgement that public criticism “comes with the territory” of being a judge. She then asked him how he handles such critiques of the Supreme Court or his judicial opinions. The Bush 43 appointee began his answer by…Open