While accepting an award Tuesday night, Chief Justice John Roberts said he'd work to resolve what he called an “issue of concern inside the court.”
to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And when Kagan introduced Roberts at the American Law Institute Tuesday night, praising the chief justice who has presided over this rogue court as a “consummate legal craftsman.”
“Those qualities, they’re more than craft,” Kagan said, in presenting the award to Roberts. “They’re the foundation stones for the rule of law. One might say they’re aspects of law’s internal morality. They’re an important part of what separates law from dictate…They offer transparency and accountability.”
Kagan did acknowledge disagreements with Roberts, which she said “matter” and “shouldn’t ever be forgotten”—a nod, it seems, to last year’s overturn of. But she nevertheless lavished praise on her “great, good friend,” who returned the favor in his own remarks: “I am happy that I can continue to say that there has never been a voice raised in anger in our conference room,” he said.
There’s nothing wrong with this collegiality or civility. But the chumminess within this closed unit of nine lifetime appointees speaks to the glaring need for a real reform: Can we really trust these “great, good friends” to hold each other accountable? “Let's be clear: he can adopt an enforceable code of conduct,” Durbin
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