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Jonathan Dienst Jonathan Dienst is chief justice contributor for NBC News and chief investigative reporter for WNBC-TV in New York.
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Tom Winter, NBC news, 7 May 2026
Moira Donegan argued in the Guardian last week that the court’s 6-3 decision not only reflected its rightwing bias but completed chief justice John Roberts’s long project of dismantling the VRA.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
When a president is on trial, the Supreme Court chief justice presides.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 4 May 2026
Voters in a 1986 retention election rejected Rose Bird, the chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and two liberal colleagues, over dissatisfaction with decisions overturning numerous death penalty sentences.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
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Tom Winter, NBC news, 7 May 2026
Moira Donegan argued in the Guardian last week that the court’s 6-3 decision not only reflected its rightwing bias but completed chief justice John Roberts’s long project of dismantling the VRA.
—ABC News, 6 May 2026
When a president is on trial, the Supreme Court chief justice presides.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 4 May 2026
Voters in a 1986 retention election rejected Rose Bird, the chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and two liberal colleagues, over dissatisfaction with decisions overturning numerous death penalty sentences.
—Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Chief justice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chief%20justice. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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