Today on TAP: The Supreme Court is not above politics
John Roberts
Posted inPolitics
Good News and Bad News for Election Day
Biden keeps widening his lead over Trump. But the efforts to frustrate a fair election keep proliferating. The remedy: a blowout, theft-proof win.
Posted inCoronavirus
Do Churchgoers Have a Right to Risk Infection?
While the White House tries to roll back rules on religious gatherings, the Supreme Court reaffirms the public-health powers of the states.
Posted inPolitics
Kingmaker: How John Roberts Will Pick the Next President
The election will not be decided on election night. What will happen afterward?
Posted inDay One Agenda
Wait a Minute, Could John Roberts Block All of This?
How the Supreme Court might frustrate the effort to use statutory authority to advance a progressive agenda, and why the next president should follow through anyway
Posted inTAP
Over to You, John Roberts
The future of American democracy may literally come down to the decisions of one man, Chief Justice John Roberts. That’s because all of Trump’s efforts to place himself above the law—stonewalling subpoenas, telling his people to defy contempt citations, making dictatorial claims about executive power—will eventually end up in court. The Supreme Court. And as […]
Posted inLaw and Justice
Something There Is that Doesn’t Love a Wall
Could that something be Chief Justice John Roberts?
Posted inLaw and Justice
John Roberts (the Tortoise) Is Outrunning Trump (the Hare)
To advance the conservative agenda, Roberts invokes the fiction of a nonpartisan judiciary.
