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Opinion: Pick a Nominee Who Unites Americans

(April 26) -- When President Barack Obama chooses his second Supreme Court nominee, the Senate must determine the kind of justice that nominee would be. The debate about judicial nominees, after all, is really a debate about judicial power and the role federal judges are supposed to play in our system of government. One...

Court Fight Looms With Talk of Stevens' Departure

(March 17) -- President Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts have been sniping at each other like in-laws with an ax to grind. And now they're potentially on the verge of a major family occasion fraught with tension. Justice John Paul Stevens turns 90 next month and is expected to announce soon whether he will...

Chief Justice Is Latest Critic of Obama's SCOTUS Scold

WASHINGTON (March 10) -- Add Chief Justice John G. Roberts to a growing list of critics of President Barack Obama's decision to call out the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address in January. Roberts said in an appearance at the University of Alabama law school that he found it "very troubling" that Obama...

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Nan Aron: Hey, Liberals, Stop Being So Mean to John Roberts!

Those mean liberals are picking on him again.

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WATCH: John Roberts Is Your Mom

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05/29/12 Critics may bolster Roberts' resolve Source: Lawrence Journal-World & 6 News - Lawrence KS Washington In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that."
05/28/12 Editorial: A Failure of Vigilance Source: International Herald Tribune Justice Sonia Sotomayor properly noted in dissent, "the threat to individual freedom from reprosecutions that favor states and unfairly rescue them from weak cases has not waned with time. Only this court's vigilance has."
05/27/12 Roberts unlikely to bow to pressure on Obamacare Source: Mail Tribune - Medford OR In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that."
05/27/12 Obama out of order with his approach to Supreme Court Source: The Record - Stockton CA The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pivotal case according to the ruling political party's wishes.
05/27/12 Attempts to bully Roberts will be unsuccessful Source: The Leaf-Chronicle - Clarksville TN Leahy unsubtly intimated that to avoid another 5-4 decision Roberts should emulate the leadership that Chief Justice Warren provided in the unanimous decision in Brown v.