This goes a long way toward explaining why Roberts has failed so spectacularly as successive ethics scandals have engulfed the high court.

Twenty years ago this week, John Roberts was sworn in as chief justice of the Supreme Court, at 50 years old. On that day, Lisa Graves “wept.” As chief counsel for nominations with the Senate ...

Chief Justice John Roberts’ 20 years on the Supreme Court have been punctuated by a series of vivid episodes, from his confirmation hearings as he vowed merely to call “balls and strikes,” to his ...

It is key to the longtime objectives supported by and benefiting the billionaires who funded the court-capture machine.

When he was pitching himself to George W. Bush for a seat on the highest court in the land, John Roberts famously declared that judges should be like “umpires,” making calls but never stepping up to ...