Roberts

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power 2026-05-07

Roberts Says the Supreme Court Is Not Political. He Said It the Day After a Partisan Redistricting Ruling.

The Chief Justice went to a judicial conference in Pennsylvania to defend the Court against 'political actor' charges, one day after a 6-3 party-line vote stripped majority-Black districts in Louisiana.

power 2026-04-21

Leaked Supreme Court Memos Show Roberts Built the Shadow Docket to Block Obama's Climate Policy

The documents don't just expose how a 2016 emergency stay happened. They reveal that the Chief Justice used internal persuasion campaigns to make unsigned, unreasoned emergency orders a standard tool of conservative governance.

power 2026-04-19

The New York Times Got the Supreme Court's Internal Memos. The Leak Matters More Than the Memos.

SCOTUS justices are publicly feuding over the shadow docket just as someone with access handed their private deliberations to a reporter.