Chief Justice John Roberts walks to the Senate chamber of the Capitol constructing, Jan. 16, 2020.
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Joan Biskupic
writing for CNN.com, July 26:
Chief Justice
John Roberts
privately lobbied fellow conservatives to save lots of the constitutional proper to abortion right down to the bitter finish, however Could’s unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade made the trouble all however unimaginable, a number of sources conversant in negotiations informed CNN.
It seems unlikely that Roberts’ finest prospect—Justice
Brett Kavanaugh
—was ever near switching his earlier vote, regardless of Roberts’ makes an attempt that continued by way of the ultimate weeks of the session. . . . Roberts’ persuasive efforts, troublesome even from the beginning, had been thwarted by the sudden public nature of the state of play. . . .
The 2 males have identified one another for the reason that early Nineteen Nineties after they each labored within the
George H.W. Bush
administration. . . . They share comparable Roman Catholic roots, prep college backgrounds and Ivy League educations (Roberts, Harvard; Kavanaugh, Yale). They now reside so shut to one another in Maryland that abortion rights protesters generally go to each houses on the identical night.
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Appeared within the July 27, 2022, print version as ‘Notable & Quotable: Roberts.’
