People have shared the image for years, often as alleged proof of a connection between the chief justice and convicted sex offender.

The court, citing free speech rights under the Constitution's First Amendment, ruled that the government may not restrict political spending by corporations in elections. The 5-4 decision, authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy and joined by the court's conservatives,

Trump sought to oust FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter earlier this spring, but lower courts ordered her reinstated after she sued.

If the chief justice was once a judicial institutionalist, he has become all too eager to cast norms and precedent aside in matters that benefit Trump.

WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - John Roberts was not supposed to be the U.S. chief justice. When President George W. Bush nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005, it was as one of the nine-member body's eight associate justices. But when then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist died just weeks later, Bush decided to tap Roberts for the job.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the administration to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid payments that President Trump moved to cancel in a rare “pocket rescission” last month.

Chief Justice John Roberts granted interim relief to the Trump administration, allowing the firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter.

The guardrails that until recently kept the president from siccing prosecutors on his political rivals are gone. Trump publicly says as much: Answering questions about last month’s FBI raid targeting John Bolton,

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with legal scholar John Yoo about the Supreme Court's efforts to maintain the independence of the Federal Reserve Board.