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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 ...
Chief Justice John Roberts scrambled around with a verbal broom and dustpan Monday, reflexively jumping into the arguments to ...
Eye rolls, gestures and interruptions in a "conundrum" of a case about how to measure intellectual disability in death ...
The Roberts court has been an accomplice in the president’s blatant attempts to bypass the Constitution’s limits on his power ...
The Supreme Court appeared uncertain about whether it would strike down a major campaign-finance restriction during oral arguments on Tuesday, with some of the court’s conservative members questioning ...
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Elena Kagan are well matched, rhetorically forceful opposites. And they have been clashing for more than a decade over an increasingly relevant question of ...
President Trump’s push to fire independent regulators led to a heated debate over the justices’ fundamental views on the ...
Slaughter supplies the blueprint for this very kind of corrupt regulatory retaliation.
The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case about President Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commissioner. At stake is a ...
Liberal justices used terms such as "destroy" and "monarchy" in warning what happens if Trump wins the case on a fired FTC ...
Sotomayor attempted to pin down the Trump administration on what exactly the consequences would be if SCOTUS agrees to ...
The US Supreme Court appeared likely on Monday to back a bid by Donald Trump to expand presidential powers and curtail the ...