According to Chief Justice Roberts, the biggest problem with decisions that are loaded with multiple dissents (and concurrences that sometimes overlap and sometimes don’t) is not that they are difficult to read and understand – although they are. No, the biggest problem, he says, is that “it’s bad, long-term, if people identify the rule of law with how individual justices vote.” Therefore it would be good, the Chief Justice told The Atlantic, “to have a commitment on the part of the Court to acting as a Court, rather than being more concerned about the consistency and coherency of an individual judicial record.”
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