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- Roberts is a member of the court’s conservative wing. But he has developed a reputation as a bit of a wild card on the court, sometimes breaking with his conservative colleagues.
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May 3, 2022 · 1:25. President George W. Bush nominated Roberts for chief justice in 2005. John Roberts is a member of the court’s conservative wing. But he has been known to break with his...
Sep 18, 2020 · As it happens, Roberts and his conservative colleagues on the Court voted to reinstate the North Carolina law that the appeals courts struck down — but they didn’t have a majority because...
- Ian Millhiser
Jul 5, 2023 · The conservative supermajority, led by Roberts, struck down nearly a half century of precedent, invalidating race-conscious affirmative action programs in college admission; it gutted much of...
- Nina Totenberg
Apr 8, 2022 · April 8 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Roberts joined liberal members of the court for the first time on Wednesday in a substantive critique -- a disapproval, even -- of how his...
Jul 21, 2021 · The rules in American elections are now what Roberts and his five even more conservative colleagues say they are — not what the Constitution or any act of Congress has to say about voting...
- Ian Millhiser
Jul 5, 2018 · Roberts usually voted conservative in close cases. Percentage of votes coded as conservative in each justice’s Supreme Court career, through the 2016 term. “Close cases” are those decided by...
Jul 12, 2020 · Roberts is less active with movement conservatism than his four most conservative colleagues. And Gorsuch’s commitment to a particular method of deciding cases sometimes overrides his...
