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Joan Biskupic: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts

April 18, 2019

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Joan Biskupic, legal analyst for CNN and the author of highly-praised books on Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Sonia Sotomayor, unveils her new biography of John Roberts, the chief justice of the United States. Taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure, Biskupic explores what she calls Roberts' divergent priorities: to follow his conservative conscience and to protect the Court's institutional legitimacy. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

 

 

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  • Joan Biskupic is a full-time CNN legal analyst and author of a new biography of Chief Justice John Roberts entitled The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts. Before joining CNN in 2017, Biskupic was an editor-in-charge for Legal Affairs at Reuters and, previously, the Supreme Court correspondent for the Washington Post and for USA Today. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory journalism in 2015.
     
  • Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
     

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