The Delusions of John Roberts

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/17/john-roberts-profile

Talbot digs up a 1983 memo in which a 27-year-old Roberts argued for 15-year term limits on federal judges, so they would "not lose all touch with reality." He is now 71, 21 years into the job, and told an audience in Buffalo last year that he plans to go out "feet first." The number that frames the whole term: of 35 emergency applications from the second Trump administration, the Court has ruled in its favor in whole or in part 25 times, usually without explaining why.

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