John Roberts, maximalist - Lawyers, Guns & Money

John Roberts, maximalist - Lawyers, Guns & Money

As the Roberts Court turns 20, a telling development is that with increasingly rare exceptions, John Roberts himself has abandoned even pretending that he’s some kind of consensus-building minimalist: But a very different Roberts had already made his presence felt by the end of his second term on the Court—when he wrote for the four-justice plurality in Parents Involved in 2007. When Justice Breyer’s oral dissent in that case pointedly complain…