John Roberts, Donald Trump
Leaked Supreme Court memos reveal John Roberts' role in shielding Trump from prosecution
One memo previewed the Supreme Court's decision to grant Trump broad official immunity, overruling a lower court
Another Supreme Court leak, this time about Trump cases
A new Supreme Court leak focused on Chief Justice John Roberts's handling of former Pres. Donald Trump's cases suggested a heavy hand.
Chief Justice John Roberts targeted by Supreme Court leak
Chief Justice John Roberts became the target of the latest batch of leaks related to the Supreme Court this week, prompting criticism from center-left commentators about Roberts’s apparent efforts to find consensus on cases involving former President 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
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.
We Helped John Roberts Construct His Image as a Centrist. We Were So Wrong.
A singular revelation in the Times’ reporting is a memo Roberts produced in February of 2024, after a cross-ideological panel ...
Durbin pressed Roberts in person to enact binding Supreme Court ethics code
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) directly pressed Chief Justice John Roberts on the need for enforceable ethics reforms during the Supreme Court’s semiannual Judicial Conference ...
Man Charged With Making Hundreds Of Threats To Supreme Court Justices As Security Concerns Mount
Panos Anastasiou has been indicted on 22 counts of making threats after authorities say he threatened to hurt and kill six ...
Salon20d
How John Roberts reshaped the law — and gutted the Voting Rights Act
Chief Justice John ... Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic. Her latest scoops from the court’s just-completed term included the stunning inside story of the decision in Moyle v. United ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...