Elie Mystal explains why he thinks Chief Justice John Roberts is a “far more dangerous” threat to democracy than Donald Trump. “If you are a nonwhite citizen, he is the person stopping you from voting. Not Donald Trump, not Stephen Miller, not the Republican Party in the White House. It has been, and it always has been, John Roberts.”
Chief Justice John Roberts has long prided himself on being a judicial minimalist and proceduralist. He wants to preserve the image of the judiciary, and especially the Supreme Court, as an impartial arbiter of cases and controversies. Very often, when highly politicized cases connected to Trump have reached the court, Roberts has sought ways to […]
The chief justice faced down the president, forged unlikely coalitions and achieved long-sought goals.
What a huge slip by the chief justice.
The John Roberts-written ruling on birthplace citizenship marks a chief justice who has sacrificed judicial courage at the altar of comity.
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.
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As threats against judges surge, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says "personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it's got to stop."