Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) directly pressed Chief Justice John Roberts on the need for enforceable ethics reforms during the Supreme Courts semiannual Judicial Conference on Tuesday. Durbin, who has long advocated a binding ethics code for justices, expressed his concerns to Roberts during the twice-annual meeting of the Judicial Conference, the judiciary’s [&#...

For decades, many liberals and progressives as well as right-wing libertarians were often pleasantly surprised by Ronald Reagan-appointed U.S. Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor when it came to issues like ...

Nearly every media attack on conservative Supreme Court justices depicts completely innocuous behavior as corrupt and secretive. How Roberts Shaped Trumps Supreme Court Winning Streak, the New York Times’s recent entry in the genre, is no different. Last February, the story begins, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. sent his eight Supreme Court colleagues a […]

Chief Justice John Roberts has been exposed, wrote legal observers Dahlia Lithwick and...

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. Last February, Roberts reportedly sent his eight colleagues a confidential memo critiquing a lower appeals court […]