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Anonymous wrote:Roberts has been more friendly than you might expect to SN issues -- although he's hardly a raging liberal. He spoke up in another case within the last couple years.

Doesn't he have a child with SN?

Roberts has never said that publicly. And to discuss or speculate violates DCUM practice of privacy re specific kids.

It has seemed to me in school cases Roberts is influenced by being younger and having kids in schools more recently. Some justices seem pretty clueless.

Anonymous wrote:Roberts can have RBG write the majority, if that's what he wants. I don't think we can ever tell how things will come down based on questions raised at oral argument. We'll just have to wait til June to see.

Yes, he can have her write it, but not likely. It's a common tactic for Chief Justice to vote with a majority they are not wild about in order to narrow the scope of the opinion. A majority with the Chief is better than no majority at all, and Ginsburg is brilliant at laying time bomb language in dissenting or concurring opinions that act as counterweights to narrower majority views, but, I'm just sayin'..... Chief in the majority is not necessarily the best of all possible worlds.