“The Supreme Court completed its annual term last week with resounding conservative victories, ending a half-century of affirmative action in college admissions, curbing gay rights when they clashed with religious objectors and canceling President Biden’s plan to forgive student debt owed by 40 million Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Yet, Chief Justice John Roberts, concluding his 17th term in charge, sought to signal that his wasn’t purely a partisan court.”
“Roberts wrote opinions frustrating Republican efforts to win new legal advantages in the 2024 elections, rejecting Alabama’s plea to roll back Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters and turning down another, filed by North Carolina’s legislative leaders, that sought to block state courts from reviewing gerrymandered congressional districts.”
“At Roberts’s side in both cases was Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has proven to be the chief’s most reliable ally.”
