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John Roberts has always been a partisan hack
We don't need secret phone calls or rumors from chambers. Just look at what his court has done

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Equal justice? How ‘bout nah
Chief Justice John Roberts has overseen the death of the Voting Rights Act, the end of abortion protections in the United States and the last semblance of potential consequences for criminal American presidents. But the man leading the Supreme Court is a moderate.
Don’t believe us? Just ask John Roberts.
Roberts has spent decades saying he’s a truth-teller and objective interpreter of the U.S. Constitution. In semi-annual public addresses, Roberts comes off as a neutral party willing to weigh new legal theories and laws against the rock-ribbed document that established our system of government. Reports of secret memos to whip court support for Republican presidents or clandestine phone calls with high-level federal judges have yet to outrun the story Roberts tells about himself.
It’s always been nonsense.
Sure, Roberts might seem level-headed compared to the seance-holding Originalist Samuel Alito, tantrum-throwing boozer Brett Kavanaugh and bribe-taking Cone of Silence resident Clarence Thomas. But’s he’s as much of an operative for the Republican Party as any of them. Perhaps more so, as his hard-won reputation as an honest dealer provides a sheen of legitimacy to the blatantly partisan rulings of his court.
No need to dig through the last few decades of Roberts court decisions, just take a look back on the term that just ended. Making heavy use of the court’s “shadow docket,” the court has dodged the question of birthright citizenship, allowed the president to gut the federal government and generally shown support for lawlessness in the executive branch, provided the president wears a red tie.
The purpose of a system, famously, is what it does. John Roberts’ court turns the right’s most hare-brained and hateful schemes into legal precedent.
What do you think? Will the public conception of John Roberts stand up to his obvious bias toward Trump? Sound off in the comments.
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