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...Roberts, who is an institutionalist as well as a conservative, has in the past shown awareness of that risk....
...Clarence Thomas is 75, Samuel Alito is 74 and Chief Justice John Roberts is 69....
...Robert F Kennedy Jr, 70, Joe Manchin, 76, Jill Stein, 73, Marianne Williamson, 71, and Cornel West, 70, are each thinking about entering the fray as independents in one form or other....
...In this case, the seat had been vacated less than 50 days before the election with the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
...Senate Democrats had requested for John Roberts, the chief justice, to testify at Tuesday’s hearing....
...In particular the retirement of Anthony Kennedy and the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg meant that the composition of the court shifted from what many regarded as a balance of those in favour of abortion as...
...Biden, not Trump, might have chosen who would fill the seat of former justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had she not died just before the 2020 election....
...Artists including Kaitlin Martin, Nix Function and Phoenix Roberts are given free rein to stage projects in the venue’s large central space....
...However, the 2020 appointment of Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg means Roberts and the three liberal justices can no longer form a majority on their own....
...Once lost, it is near impossible to rebuild.” — Robert A Rogowsky, Leesburg, Virginia...
...Legal experts point to a group of four Republican-appointed justices — chief justice John Roberts and Donald Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Barrett — as having the ability to decide cases...
...John Roberts, the chief justice, who was appointed by George W Bush, expressed concern the justice department was seeking “limitless” authority for the federal government to challenge a state law....
...When they formed a 6-3 conservative majority last October, after the death of the liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an age of judicial Republicanism seemed to beckon....
...This has been a significant period since the appointment of conservative Amy Coney Barrett, near the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, to replace veteran liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
...Last summer, when Ginsburg was still on the bench, the Supreme Court narrowly struck down a restrictive abortion law in Louisiana, after chief justice John Roberts sided with the court’s liberal wing....
...John Roberts, who was appointed by George W Bush as chief justice in 2005, joined the liberal judges in their dissent....
...That would all but end the moderating role played by swing voters on the court over the past three decades, including Justices O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy and more recently Chief Justice John Roberts, in...
...Chief Justice John Roberts, another conservative, has also sided with the liberals on several issues....
...“Our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature,” said Chief Justice John Roberts. “We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague.”...
...These include California district court judge William Alsup, an influential figure in some of Silicon Valley’s biggest courtroom battles, and Robert Katzmann of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan...
...The Brnovich ruling comes at the end of the Supreme Court’s term, the first since conservative Barrett joined the bench following the death of liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg....
...In the case concerning LGBTQ+ rights, Neil Gorsuch — a Trump appointee and conservative justice — also sided with Mr Roberts and the liberal bloc, handing down a 6-3 decision....
...Donald Trump has vowed to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death without delay....
...Early signs suggest he is still playing a similar role, even though Ginsburg’s death has shifted the balance on the court....
...Mr Trump’s replacement for Ginsburg, Amy Coney Barrett, is set to be confirmed later this month before the election....
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