John Roberts Bet Big on Trump—and Won
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John Roberts Bet Big on Trump—and Won

Slate  

You have to hand it to John Roberts: The chief justice played his cards right. It’s easy to imagine an earlier version of the chief justice spending the next four years losing his grasp on the court’s direction and drawing Trump’s public ire. To see how much the chief justice has changed, remember the role he played in Trump’s first term: the uneasy guardrail against some of the president’s most extreme policies and grievances. Trump’s steady return to power in 2023 and 2024 coincided with the chief justice going full MAGA. Second, he wrote the court’s opinion undermining obstruction charges for many Jan. 6 participants, including Trump himself, weakening the legal basis for the former president’s prosecution.

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Justice John Roberts poised to give go-ahead to 'MAGA vision of the law': legal expert
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Justice John Roberts poised to give go-ahead to 'MAGA vision of the law': legal expert

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A review of Chief Justice John Roberts' actions during the last Supreme Court session would seem to indicate that he has stopped attempting to rein in both his more rabidly conservative colleagues and chosen to go along with their far-right vision of America, according to an expert's analysis. That is the opinion of Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern who …

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