{"id":23870,"date":"2016-09-25T20:24:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T01:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23870"},"modified":"2016-09-25T20:24:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T01:24:34","slug":"nytimes-court-leader-or-leading-dissenter-chief-justices-fate-tied-to-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23870","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: Court Leader or Leading Dissenter? Chief Justice\u2019s Fate Tied to Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/26\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\">Court Leader or Leading Dissenter? Chief Justice\u2019s Fate Tied to Election<\/a> by Adam Liptak:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 In Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.\u2019s 11 years on the Supreme Court, his unfolding legacy has been marked by a debate over whether his very occasional liberal votes in major cases were the acts of a statesman devoted to his institution, a traitor to his principles or the legal umpire he said he aspired to be at his confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n<p>This election could settle that debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: Court Leader or Leading Dissenter? Chief Justice\u2019s Fate Tied to Election by Adam Liptak: WASHINGTON \u2014 In Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.\u2019s 11 years on the Supreme Court, his unfolding legacy has been marked by a debate over &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23870\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23871,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23870\/revisions\/23871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}