How much is Chief Justice Roberts now the center of the US Supreme Court? In the term that just ended Thursday, he was in the majority in all but two cases. Analysis from PeteWilliamsNBC.
But Roberts is not a swing justice in the mold of Anthony Kennedy, who retired in 2018. Kennedy notably wrote the court's gay marriage ruling and voted consistently to trim back the reach of the death penalty. Roberts, by contrast, does not write sweeping opinions that move the law to the left.
For example, Roberts voted with the liberals to strike down a Louisiana law that could have left the state with a single abortion clinic. But his opinion set out a legal test that could make it easier for future state abortion restrictions to withstand legal attacks.— nonetheless left the door open for the Trump administration to try again to shut the program down.
"He got wide majorities to reject the president's broad claims of immunity in both cases," Gornstein said."And he got equally wide majorities to reject the view that states and Congress have a blank check to get access to a president's personal information." "One hundred percent," said professor Richard Primus at the University of Michigan law school. He called the court's 5-4 ruling giving Trump the power to fire the director of the Consumer Financial Protection board"a big step forward in the conservative attack on the administrative state."
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