John Roberts’ New Role Model Shows Everything Wrong With the Supreme Court
Chief Justice John Roberts recently praised William Howard Taft as his role model—a decision that critics say reveals everything wrong with today’s Supreme Court. In a piece for Slate, legal scholars Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan argue that Roberts’ admiration for Taft, who led the court to strike down Reconstruction-era laws that restrained presidents, signals a dangerous shift: the court is increasingly placing the president above enacted federal law. This trend, combined with recent rulings on immunity, election interference, and agency independence, has revived a 19th-century fight over whether the Supreme Court should be supreme over Congress or accountable to it.
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