How Partisan is Chief Justice Roberts?
5 min readApr 24, 2019
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who gained his appointment from Republican George W. Bush, is on record as publicly hoping to avoid the public perception that the Supreme Court is a partisan institution. Of course, the Supreme Court should not be partisan. In good Republican fashion, unsurprisingly, Roberts used his desire to avoid the appearance of partisanship to refuse to decide a case in favor of Democrats.
