Chief Justice Roberts Is Officially Irrelevant

Chief Justice Roberts, I have a message from your former professor: You are no longer the star student.

“Having had both John Roberts and Elena Kagan as my brilliant students in constitutional law, and having watched each of their careers unfold, I can’t help thinking that one of them, Justice Kagan, has grown into her role as a wise jurist ...,” Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe said when I asked him about Roberts’ latest comment about the Supreme Court, and Kagan’s reaction to it.

On the other hand, “Chief Justice Roberts has dwindled in stature as his cliches have lost ...