“Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote against President Trump’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, but only after changing his position behind the scenes,” sources familiar with the private Supreme Court deliberations tell CNN.
“More broadly, his moves in the census dispute demonstrate that as he begins his 15th year as chief justice, Roberts has become less predictable. He is wearing the heavy mantle of a vote at the middle of a divided bench in this new chapter of his tenure, with the 2018 retirement of centrist-conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy and a solid 5-4 conservative majority.”
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