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On a rainy October afternoon, Justice Clarence Thomas is seated in temporary chambers at the Supreme Court. The office he has occupied for most of the past 16 years is being remodeled as part of a larger renovation of the Supreme Court building. Thomas' relationships on the court are also...
In fact, the growing respect the Justices have for one another has led to more contact among them under Roberts, not less. "This is a place where rather than hurling aspersions, people will actually sit at lunch and chat and laugh," Thomas says. "When we have formal meetings on the...
It should be--but so far, it isn't. That's the story of the Roberts Court, a tale of the gap between should be and is.
As a clerk for Rehnquist in 1980, Roberts was assigned to conduct research for an article on the power of a Chief Justice to set the court's tone. He found an essay in which Frankfurter scoffed at the very notion. Every Justice "is his own sovereign," Frankfurter wrote; you...
A quarter-century later, John Roberts still wants to believe that something more is possible. A Chief Justice ought to aspire to persuade his colleagues "to be open to the considered views of the others," as he explained in a 2006 speech at Georgetown University. Roberts added, "There will, of...