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John Roberts Defies the Supreme Court

If the chief justice was once a judicial institutionalist, he has become all too eager to cast norms and precedent aside in ...
Trump sought to oust FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter earlier this spring, but lower courts ordered her reinstated after ...
WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - John Roberts was not supposed to be the U.S. chief justice. When President George W. Bush nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005, it was as one of the ...
The guardrails that until recently kept the president from siccing prosecutors on his political rivals are gone. Trump ...
The court, citing free speech rights under the Constitution's First Amendment, ruled that the government may not restrict ...
Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday let President Donald Trump remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission.
Chief Justice John Roberts granted interim relief to the Trump administration, allowing the firing of FTC Commissioner ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the administration to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid payments that President ...
Ten judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts ...
In a narrow 5-4 decision, the justices lifted a lower court order that had blocked $783 million in cuts made by the National ...
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with legal scholar John Yoo about the Supreme Court's efforts to maintain the independence of the Federal Reserve Board.
John Roberts has served for two decades as the chief justice of the United States, a time when the Supreme Court has moved ...