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
Opinion
The supremely partisan court of Chief Justice Roberts
The Roberts court has become so political that it is driving itself to term limits. As FDR put it in a Fireside Chat to the nation on March 9, 1937: “We have, therefore, reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the court and the court from itself.
John Roberts’ Secret Trump Help Revealed in Huge SCOTUS Leak
A memo obtained by The New York Times indicated the chief justice wanted to act quick—and decisively—on Donald Trump’s presidential immunity.
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.
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.
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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.
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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 ...
US Supreme Court's Roberts hears key Democrat's call for enforceable ethics code
The Democratic chair of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday argued during a closed-door federal judiciary meeting ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Samuel Alito's Role in Jan 6 Ruling Questioned after John Roberts Memo Leak
Questions have been raised regarding U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's involvement in a ruling related to January 6 defendants in the wake of details around Chief Justice John Roberts' ...
Opinion | John Roberts Gets His Turn in the Progressive Dock
The story’s theme is that in three cases last term the Chief steered the Court to help Donald Trump: “How Roberts Shaped ...