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John Roberts

I Am Here to Watch the Birthright-Citizenship Arguments, but Not in a Threatening Way

Alexandra Petri

April 1, 2026

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What the Roberts Court Is Actually Trying to Accomplish

February 23, 2026

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How the Supreme Court Spared America

February 21, 2026

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The Supreme Court Isn’t a Rubber Stamp

February 20, 2026

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The Question That the Lawyers Representing Trans Athletes Didn’t Answer

January 16, 2026

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John Roberts’s Dream Is Finally Coming True

December 10, 2025

John Roberts from 2005 and 2025, and Ronald Reagan signing the voting rights act

This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built

July 21, 2025

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The Archaic Sex-Discrimination Case the Supreme Court Is Reviving

June 24, 2025

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What John Roberts’s Rebuke of Trump Left Out

David A. Graham

March 18, 2025

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What Alito’s Dissent Fails to Understand

Nicholas Bagley

March 6, 2025

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Why Trump Thanked John Roberts

March 5, 2025

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Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Court

Akhil Reed Amar

July 2, 2024

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John Roberts’s Long Game

Linda Greenhouse

October 2022 Issue

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The Battle for the Constitution

John Roberts Is Just Who the Supreme Court Needed

July 13, 2020

Trump Is Losing Credit Where He May Soon Need It Most

June 18, 2020

Chief Justice John Roberts

The Trump Administration’s Incompetence Was the Saving Grace of 700,000 Dreamers

June 18, 2020

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Roberts Wanted Minimal Competence, but Trump Couldn’t Deliver

June 18, 2020

Donald Trump and John Roberts

John Roberts May Not Be the Ally Gun-Rights Advocates Hoped For

June 16, 2020

Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh

John Roberts’s Surprisingly Straightforward Task Ahead

December 19, 2019

Chief Justice John Roberts

Will John Roberts Constrain Trump?

Ronald Brownstein

December 2, 2019

Where John Roberts Is Taking the Court

July 5, 2019

Chief Justice John Roberts

A Day of Sorrow for American Democracy

July 3, 2019

Roberts’s Rules of Misrepresentation

June 28, 2019

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John Roberts Says Partisan Gerrymandering Is Not His Problem

David A. Graham

June 27, 2019