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Prof Michael E. MannonX / Twitter1d ago
"In public, Chief Justice John Roberts has cultivated a reputation for care & caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country & the court, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis." x.com/MichaelEMann/s…
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Analysis Summary
Recently leaked Supreme Court memos reveal Chief Justice Roberts aggressively pushed to block Obama's Clean Power Plan using the emergency shadow docket in 2016, contradicting his public image of careful deliberation. The justices decided the issue in just five days with no normal briefing or public hearings, and notably never discussed climate risks in their private correspondence. This matters because it shows the highest court used procedural shortcuts to overturn environmental policy at a critical moment for climate action.
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“Chief Justice John Roberts cultivated a reputation for care and caution in public; the papers reveal a different side of him”
New York Times reporting on leaked internal memos confirms this exact characterization and Roberts' actual role.
“At a critical moment for the country and the court, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama's plan to address the global climate crisis”
Multiple sources confirm Roberts pushed aggressively for an emergency stay of the Clean Power Plan using the shadow docket.
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