Word: robertses
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During his first term, which ended in 2006, Roberts managed to avoid 5-4 splits--for the most part, he said, because his colleagues were eager to be nice to the newcomer, like prospective in-laws meeting a fiancé for the first time at Thanksgiving. Then the honeymoon ended. When...
And yet, in his third term, Roberts has achieved what his colleagues had thought was nearly impossible. His success is a reminder of the importance of personality when it comes to leadership on the Supreme Court, in which the quirks and temperaments of individual Justices are as important as judicial...
Roberts' success is also a reminder of the Chief Justice's limited but real power: as the Justice who speaks first at the court's private conference, he can frame the issues and influence the kinds of cases that the court agrees to hear in the first place. Under Roberts...
How long will the changed mood last? The role of personality on the Supreme Court shouldn't be overstated. In cases in which they have strong, pre-existing constitutional views on issues from abortion to guns to Guantánamo, the Justices are unlikely to persuade one another. And as Scalia...
By contrast, if Obama wins, the ideological makeup of the court will remain the same for the foreseeable future--four liberals and four conservatives, with Kennedy in the middle. In that case, Roberts' success in promoting bipartisan unity may make the difference between a Supreme Court that declares war on...