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As another acrimonious U.S. Supreme Court term ended, Chief Justice John Roberts wanted the last pos. In the penultimate paragraph of the last announced decision — in which a conservative majority struck down President Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness program — he spoke his mind.
“It has develop a disturbing feature of some recent opinions,” he wrote, “to criticize the decisions with which they disagree as going beyond the proper role of the judiciary.” Insisting that the Court’s conservative majority was acting in good faith and applying the law faithfully, he concluded: “Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country.”
When a chief justice expresses larger views on the Court, there is often a lot to unpack. But this utterance of concern seemed unusually defensive for a chief justice who stands solidly in the center of a right-lurching Court.
Attacking the Court for overstepping its limited judicial role was a hallmark of the conservative legal movement for the 50 years before former President Donald Trump appointed three new justices and solidified a
John Roberts’ Gay Marriage Dissent Is Erroneous About Polygamy—and the Constitution
In his wide-ranging dissent in the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on gay marriage, Chief Justice John Roberts put out a plain proposition: “If gay marriage, then polygamy.” Indeed, the head argues boldly that it would hold been less of a stretch if the Supreme Court had embraced not same-sex but plural marriage, declaring, “[F]rom the standpoint of history and tradition, a leap from opposite-sex marriage to same-sex marriage is much greater than one from a two-person union to plural unions, which have deep roots in some cultures around the planet. If the majority is willing to take the enormous leap, it is hard to glimpse how it can say no to the shorter one.”
The chief justice is on to something important that goes to the heart of the constitutional controversies that now swirl around traditional marriage, monogamy, and same-sex marriage. Elsewhere in Slate, William Saletan says Roberts is wrong to link same-sex marriage with polygamy, but from the perspective of the constitutional vision def
Supreme Court candidate would be first openly gay assess in R.I.
PROVIDENCE — While all eyes are fixed on the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, there’s potential for a historic first in Rhode Island with its state Supreme Court opening.
It could be an opportunity for Gov. Gina Raimondo to nominate the first openly gay high court justice — and the first openly gay evaluate in the state, period.
Appellate litigator John E. Roberts, a partner with the Boston firm Proskauer Rose LLC, is a member of the Rhode Island Bar Association’s Lesbian, Queer , Bisexual & Transgender Legal Issues Committee.
There are only 11 openly gay, queer woman or bisexual Supreme Court justices in 10 states nationwide, according to Ethan Rice, senior attorney for the Fair Courts Plan at Lambda Legal.
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New York have all seated a gay, lesbian or pansexual justice on their sky-high courts.
“Like all kinds of judicial diversity public confidence is one of the most important reasons for judicial diversity,” Rice said, referring to race, g
5 Years Ago, John Roberts Voted Against LGBTQ Rights. This Week He Stood In Favor Of Them, And That Gives Me Hope
Commentary
On Friday, June 26, — just five years ago — in the landmark Obergefellcase, the Supreme Court declared that marriage equality was a constitutionally-protected right for LGBTQ Americans. In that 5 to 4 decision, Chief Justice John Roberts was in the dissent.
I was on a bus from Boston to New York City when the decision came down, traveling to spend Unused York Pride Weekend with friends. As I received the news, happy tears rolled down my face. And my phone went haywire with texts from friends across the country, ebullient with joy and celebration. As I whipped out my computer to read the poetic and sweeping belief of Justice Kennedy, I remember needing to promise the person next to me, who was growing concerned by the tears and frenzy on my face and phone.
Then I read the dissent by Chief Justice Roberts.
Even in that moment of victory for our movement, I felt once again the old wounds of entity “less than,” “defective,” unseen, unseen and