Chief Justice John Roberts has been the leading voice in urging the public not to view the court as not just another political branch of government, once tangling with Trump over judicial independence.
By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO
The abortion case in particular was a repudiation of the more incremental approach favored by Chief Justice John Roberts. But the chief justice was unable to attract any support from his colleagues on the right, including the three justices nominated by former President Donald Trump. Obama nominated Merrick Garland, then a federal appeals court judge and now President Joe Biden’s attorney general, but Republicans would not even give Garland a hearing.
Without the votes, the court’s three-justice liberal minority could only look on in dismay, confined to writing dissents that were alternately scathing and sad. The dissent included a warning that “no one should be confident that this majority is done with its work.” The justices suggested the decision’s logic also imperiled previously recognized rights to same-sex marriage and contraception.
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