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• A Supreme Court threesome

  By Quin Hillyer / 1 May 2023

  

  Roberts should testify — later (April 20): Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) has good reasons to invite Chief Justice John Roberts to testify about Supreme Court ethics reform. […]

   

• Justice Roberts’ halfway measures still control U.S. courts

  By Quin Hillyer / 20 June 2021

  

  (June 17) Whether for good or for ill, three court decisions in the past two days make clear that Chief Justice John Roberts’s “Let’s Make a Deal” regime continues to […]

   

• Four on the floor: Random, from Miguel Estrada to B. Obama

  By Quin Hillyer / 24 August 2020

  

  Four column by Quin with links embedded in the headlines. (There is no topical connection among these four pieces.) Doug Jones auditions for a Biden sub-Cabinet post (Aug. 17). Mobile, […]

   

• Liberal John Roberts says law can favor casinos over churches

  By Quin Hillyer / 3 August 2020

  

  (July 27) Five members of the U.S. Supreme Court have shuffled the Constitution’s principles beyond recognition. On July 25, the court’s five liberals — counting Chief Justice John Roberts, who […]

   

• John Roberts was DOUBLY inconsistent in abortion case

  By Quin Hillyer / 6 July 2020

  

  (TWO columns on June 29) 1. Roberts aborts conservative jurisprudence. Chief Justice John Roberts has put another shiv in the ribs of judicial conservatives, again abandoning intellectual consistency while doing […]

   

• S. Court made it all up on sex-identity case

  By Quin Hillyer / 22 June 2020

  

  (June 15) The Supreme Court’s Monday decision in a job discrimination case is one of the worst pieces of robed sophistry since Chief Justice John Roberts invented a new meaning […]

   

• Justice Kavanaugh’s bad week

  By Quin Hillyer / 27 April 2020

  

  Justice Brett Kavanaugh penned two opinions last week which conservatives of a certain stripe had reason to resent. For the first, from April 23, just follow the following link: Kavanaugh […]

   

• Supreme Court, led by Roberts, punts and fumbles

  By Quin Hillyer / 1 July 2019

  

  Four pieces on the Supreme Court’s final week of its 2018-19 session, in chronological order, with links embedded in each headline. You will see, from my second piece, that my […]

   

• Making sense of John Roberts, and of injunctions

  By Quin Hillyer / 10 February 2019

  

  Three Examiner pieces by Quin Hillyer; Lower courts already should be restrained from national rulings  Both the Supreme Court and Congress — or both — should act to rein in district […]

   

• Middle ground on Ryancare

  By Quin Hillyer / 24 March 2017

  

  By Quin Hillyer at National Review Online, whereby I urged compromise to help appeal to conservatives; Frankenstein’s limbs are severable, and able to be reassembled, until the creature is finally […]