EDITORIAL: Why Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts must come to the rescue
While Kennedy -- a
This is why so many people are nervous about what will happen if President
But while it is unrealistic to think that Trump will pick a Kennedy-style justice, there is hope that a hard-right court won't go on a precedent-shredding crusade in coming years. That hope lies with
There's evidence this is why Roberts was the fifth vote to save the Affordable Care Act in 2012 when President
This is as it should be. Any chief justice who doesn't appreciate the importance of preserving the idea that the
A 2016 essay by
Roberts appears to have grasped this long ago -- or at least Americans who seek the best for their nation should hope. Because if he hasn't, the ugliness of our present politics only will get worse -- as hard as that may be to believe.
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