Chief Justice Roberts

Al Franken and the Sotomayor Hearings: A Senate Star Is Born

Doug Kendall | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics


Doug Kendall

While colleagues on both sides of the aisle were debating old stories about the Supreme Court of the 1960s and 1970s, Franken focused like a laser-beam on the activism of the Roberts Court.

The Ledbetter Lesson

Jessica Arons | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Jessica Arons

Many hoped the Court would abandon its quest to place its own ideology ahead of settled law. Yet it is clear that these justices still have not learned their lesson.

Supreme Court Likely To Keep Moving To The Right, Even With Sotomayor

Washington Post | Robert Barnes | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics


For the Supreme Court, it was the year of living on the verge. On the verge of declaring the key provision of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutiona...

Chief Justice John Roberts Has Served The Interests And Reflected The Values Of The GOP: Toobin

New Yorker | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics


When John G. Roberts, Jr., emerges from behind the red curtains and takes his place in the middle of the Supreme Court bench, he usually wears a pair ...

Obama's Not Perfect

Lloyd Garver | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


Lloyd Garver

The fawning press is sickening. Why did nobody in the media have the courage to say, "That's an ugly dress?"

From the Ballot to the Bullet

Josh Horwitz | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics


Josh Horwitz

The Roberts Court might not just be moving in the wrong direction, but in a direction that presents a direct threat to the rule of law and our very democracy.