The Latest Breaking News from John Roberts

Chief Justice John Roberts tried to protect Roe but failed to persuade Supreme Court colleagues, report claims

Draft opinion leak led to renewed sense of urgency among conservatives to issue final opinion before it could face other obstacles

The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2022

SCOTUS leak derailed effort to save Roe

Roberts tried to sway Justice Brett Kavanaugh before an unidentified leaker blew up his efforts

Salon · Jul 26, 2022

For Legal Conservatives, Six Decades Of Folding, Followed By Sixteen Years To Draw A Full House

On the plus side, we had Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. On the down side, we had Roberts, Souter, Kennedy, O'Connor, Powell, Blackmun, Burger, Stewart, Whittaker, Brennan, and Warren.

Reason · Jul 25, 2022

Commentary: Why can’t we limit money in politics like the French?

My family and I are nearing the end of a gap year in France. One highlight of this adventure was watching the French presidential election in April in which Emanual Macron beat Marine Le Pen by a 17-point margin. As an American, it was refreshing to see how a democracy…

Tribune News Service · Jul 12, 2022

Fox News alarmed by falling gas prices

"It's a struggle for all of them," Fox News host Martha MacCallum claimed

Salon · Jul 12, 2022

Supreme Court’s gun rights decision upends state restrictions

Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month that expanded the right to carry firearms outside the home, gun rights activist Andrew Namiki Roberts rushed to the Honolulu Police Department to apply for four permits to carry handguns in public. He was fourth in line, surrounded by excited Hawaii…

Tribune News Service · Jul 11, 2022

Editorial: Curtailing EPA is a bad ruling in a series of bad rulings by Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has been on a tear lately, to put it mildly. It wasn't enough that the court's conservative majority upended a half-century of precedent by ending the constitutional right to abortion. It also expanded gun rights despite the ongoing trauma of mass shootings and gun violence.

Tribune News Service · Jul 11, 2022

N.Y. Times Opinion: "If Only John Roberts Would Retire"

No, it wasn't my column.

Reason · Jul 10, 2022

Group offers up to $250 for SCOTUS justices sightings after Kavanaugh protest

Prior to Roe being overturned, the federal government warned of a potential surge in political violence.

Axios · Jul 10, 2022

The ‘Thomas court’: after biding his time, rightwing justice finds his power

Just as the conservative justice reaches the zenith of his influence to press his agenda, a political scandal could yet tear him down

The Guardian - US · Jul 10, 2022