AOC and Raskin demand answers from Chief Justice Roberts following NYT report [View all]
The Supreme Courts new term starts Monday, with plenty of open questions about whether and how the justices will be involved in deciding the 2024 presidential election, as well as how theyll resolve a host of disputes over guns, transgender rights and much more.
But a letter sent Friday from House Democrats to Chief Justice John Roberts underscores open questions that still linger from last term about how the Roberts Court operates in deciding its biggest cases while under an ethical cloud.
The letter, from Reps. Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, cited a New York Times report from last month that said Roberts took over authorship of a Jan. 6-related opinion from Justice Samuel Alito after the Times reported in May that a symbol of the Stop the Steal movement flew outside Alitos home following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
We already knew that Roberts authored the 6-3 ruling in Fischer v. United States, which narrowed obstruction charges against Jan. 6 criminal defendants including, potentially, Donald Trump.
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