This is a super interesting article but I have always been of the mind that Roberts' primary concern is depoliticizing the court as much as possible, and granting deference to the other branches. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/is-chief-justice-roberts-a-secret-liberal/ …
I could be totally off-base there but that just the vibe I get from what I know about his decisions in big cases. Even in Citizens United he wrote that concurrence about like "sorry guys, sorry we had to do so much constitutioning, our bad, we didn't have a choice though!"
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anyway in practice this means Roberts' decisions will look more liberal when there is a lot of liberal legislation/practices being challenged, and more conservative when the reverse is true.
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the x-factor here is trump, who does not seem content to color within the lines of his constitutionally-granted powers. Whether Roberts will fall on his apolitical non-intervention stance vs protecting Constitutional roles will determine a lot in 2019-2022, I think.
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