Consider what you DO NOT KNOW as a researcher if this is the first time you have ever heard the names Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo.
Consider why you DO NOT KNOW IT.
John Roberts and Malta
Besieged Chief Justice Flees To Malta July 3, 2012
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/besieged-chief-justice-flees-to-malta
After joking about heading to Malta to escape criticism….Chief Justice Roberts heads to Malta as it emerges that he may have written for AND against opinions on Obamacare 4 July 2012
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2168451/Chief-Justice-Roberts-heads-Malta-emerges-written-AND-opinions-Obamacare.html
John Roberts Arrives In Malta Dec 6, 2017
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-roberts-arrives-in-malta_n_1647506
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Lauded by Knights of Malta for “ObamaCare” Vote
https://www.texemarrs.com/072012/roberts_lauded_by_knights_of_malta.htm
JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS RECUSES HIMSELF FOR CONFLICTS OF INTEREST WITH KNIGHTS OF MALTA JULY 12, 20223:15 PM
https://aim4truth.org/2022/07/12/justice-john-roberts-recuses-himself-for-conflicts-of-interest-with-knights-of-malta/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Malta
Whose Supreme Court is it anyway?
On the key issues that divide our polarized nation, the outcomes of cases in the Supreme Court typically mirror the views of the Republican Party. Updated July 5, 2023
Scholars sometimes refer to the Supreme Court in a particular era by the name of the president who made key appointments.
Congress rejected President Franklin Roosevelt’s court-packing plan, but during his extraordinary three-plus terms in office, he named nearly every member of what became the Roosevelt Court.
The term Nixon Court pays tribute to President Richard Nixon’s appointment of four justices in less than two full terms. In just one term, Trump named three justices. So, are we witnessing the Trump Court?
Perhaps, but“McConnell Court”seems a more fitting sobriquet. As Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland,
thus keeping a seat open for well over a year in order for Trump to fill it. McConnell’s shameless hypocrisy then enabled Republicans to fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat less than six weeks after her death.
And on substance, the current Supreme Court acts in near-perfect harmony with McConnell’s agenda: exploiting culture war issues; suppressing Democratic votes while holding Trumpist authoritarianism at arm’s length;
and promoting the interests of corporations and wealthy individuals.
In the end, the name matters little. Roberts, Bush, Trump, or McConnell? One way or another, this is a Republican Supreme Court.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07/05/opinion/supreme-court-john-roberts-republicans/