Jeff Shesol

Besieged on all sides, the chief justice faces his greatest test yet.

In “The Indispensable Right,” Jonathan Turley argues that the First Amendment has been deeply compromised from the start.

The term that just ended must have been a torment for the chief justice. But his behavior has only made matters worse.

He insisted that politics do not shape the decisions of justices — an idyllic, even naïve, notion, but one that kept the court functioning for…