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John Roberts and the Cynical Cult of Federalist No. 70

Last year, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that the president of the United States had “absolute” criminal immunity for his “official acts,” as well as lesser degrees of immunity for ...
Eye rolls, gestures and interruptions in a "conundrum" of a case about how to measure intellectual disability in death ...
Ever since Sonia Sotomayor joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 2009, she and Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. have never been the only two dissenters in a case. Until Wednesday. Roberts and Sotomayor ...
President Trump’s push to fire independent regulators led to a heated debate over the justices’ fundamental views on the ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - John Roberts was not supposed to be the U.S. chief justice. When President George W. Bush nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005, it was as one of the ...
Trump administration Solicitor General D. John Sauer faced pointed and at times skeptical questioning from both conservative and liberal justices during Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral arguments over ...