John Roberts
There are so many people contributing, actively or passively, to the end of America’s brief experiment with real democracy that it’s hard to know where to focus your anger.
As the president puts himself behind a measure that is unlikely to pass, the choice is whether to credit him for trying or to accelerate the tragedy he’s trying to avert.
Republican assaults on voting rights are happening because we no longer have a real Voting Rights Act.
John Roberts and his conservative court majority are finding ways to undermine voting rights at every opportunity.
The Republican appointee, who passed away Tuesday at 99, made a remarkable evolution to liberal firebrand, but his judicial philosophy was more principled than ideological.
Ted Cruz has claimed a special skill at judging would-be Supreme Court nominees—but his praise of Justice Roberts in 2005 might call his judgment into question as the debate on who will replace Justice Antonin Scalia begins.
Jeffrey Toobin's book positions the chief justice as the anti-Obama—then health care threw him a curveball. By Jimmy So.