Word: robertses
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Opposite Roberts' desk in his paneled chambers is a door that leads to the Supreme Court conference room, where in order of seniority the Justices discuss cases. It is a small space for such robust egos and large minds, but by all accounts, the exchanges are unfailingly cordial.
Of course, symbols matter. Court cases dealing with Executive power over Guantánamo detainees will directly affect relatively few people, but such cases help strike the philosophical balance between security and human rights that is relevant to the entire nation and to America's place in the world. As Harvard...
John Roberts not only has an abiding philosophy, but he also has a temperament. He is a technocrat of appellate law and a groupie of Supreme Court culture. He clerked for the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist and became one of the most prominent members of the Supreme Court bar...
This makes him a perfect representative of a highly technocratic and specialized court. The Roberts Court exemplifies a striking change in the anthropology of the high tribunal. For much of the institution's history, Justices arrived from diverse backgrounds. Some were distinguished lawyers in private practice, such as Louis Brandeis...
That these Justices so often find their attention captured by discrete cases that pirouette on a narrow point of law suits their shared temperament. They are like priests, schooled from an early age in the orthodoxies, mysteries and controversies of the constitutional faith. Many of them have been enfolded from...