Bloomberg Law has Roberts Rankled Colleagues as High Court Hold Slipped, Book Says:
A new book details how Chief Justice John Roberts lost control of an increasingly conservative US Supreme Court as it moved to overturn the constitutional right to abortion last year.
The book, written by veteran Supreme Court reporter and CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic and based in part on interviews with unnamed justices, describes conservative disgruntlement with Roberts leading up to the abortion case. The court voted 5-4 to toss out the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, with Roberts failing to persuade any of his colleagues to join him in a narrower ruling.
The Wall St. Journal's review begins:
Joan Biskupic’s “Nine Black Robes,” an account of the Supreme Court’s “drive to the right,” is the product of “more than a hundred interviews,” the author writes. Ms. Biskupic spoke with “a majority of the justices,” meaning at least some of the court’s conservatives politely sat for her questions. After using the book to opine that the court is “off the rails,” “going backward,” “laying waste to precedents” and so on, you wonder if she’ll be allowed back into their chambers.
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