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When the Roberts Court Dropped the Mask
For fifteen years, Chief Justice John Roberts conducted the Court like a string quartet: conservative, cautious, obsessed with key changes more than crescendos. Call it minimalism—long opinions that moved doctrine by inches. Since 2020, the tempo changed.
Sep 21, 202526 min
governanceInventing Tradition: Originalism as Judicial Activism
Call it the constitutionalist's promise: decide by text, history, and structure rather than by vibe or partisan appetite. In principle, that's healthy. In practice, on the current Supreme Court, the methods deliver outcomes that lean the same direction over and over—and create a new vision of the.
Sep 1, 202518 min