When you look at his body of work, his power becomes clear. This is John Roberts’s court, and the other justices are just sitting on it.

"Separation of powers and judicial independence undoubtedly are principles fundamental to our Constitution, but neither was genuinely threatened by the chief justice meeting with the committee."

In the term just ended, Roberts moved the law to match his priorities—and didn’t worry about getting liberal justices on board.

Chief Justice John Roberts is so enamored with the image of a bold and fearless American President that he abandoned his usual restraint and declared a stunning level of immunity for a former president facing criminal indictment for trying to overturn an election.

Wherever Richard Nixon is today, I have no doubt he is smiling up at the Supreme Court. Just short of fifty years after he resigned from the White House, the nation’s highest court has come around to Nixon’s view that if the president does something it is by definition “not illegal.”

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will issue the final opinions of its terms on Monday. Chief Justice John Roberts made the courtroom announcement on Friday. Four cases remain to be decided, including whether former President Trump has immunity from prosecution.

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority fundamentally altered American democracy on Monday, awarding the president a sweeping and novel immunity when he weaponizes the po