News Analysis: In Surprise Abortion Vote, Roberts Avoids ‘Jolt to the Legal System’

The chief justice, a student of legal rules governing precedent, balances guarding his court’s legitimacy against his generally conservative impulses.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/politics/abortion-law-justice-john-roberts.html?partner=rss&emc=rss