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The Real John Roberts Emerges by Linda Greenhouse
This time a year ago, the conservative chief justice whose vote saved President Obama’s health care law was a figure of mystery. In fact, “The Mystery of John Roberts” was the title I gave to one of my Opinionator columns for The New York Times last summer. The right-wing blogosphere had turned on him venomously. Liberals didn’t know what to make of his crucial vote, or of him. What was his game? Was he for real?
What a difference a Supreme Court term makes.
What became clear during the momentous term that ended Wednesday is that the real Chief Justice Roberts has been there all along, hiding in plain sight. We just needed to know where to look.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/the-real-john-roberts-emerges/?hp