{"id":49,"date":"2020-07-13T08:06:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/will-john-roberts-block-the-triumph-of-legal\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T01:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T09:26:24","slug":"will-john-roberts-block-the-triumph-of-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/will-john-roberts-block-the-triumph-of-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice John Roberts and Eschewing Social Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npf_link\" data-npf=\"{\" type john roberts block the triumph of legal conservatism hesitations about moving court to right are only a question pace. atlantic><a href=\"https:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2019%2F04%2Fjohn-roberts-isnt-really-moderate%2F586273%2F&#038;t=NDM5NmY0NjI3NmY2MDQ5NDExZTA3MTJlMjhmODdiMDY4ODU1YjUzNixiZDJjMmEwMDg1YzlmMmYzOTkwYzQ5OTk2NjlkNzFjZWZjMWY4NjZm\" target=\"_blank\">Will John Roberts Block the Triumph of Legal Conservatism?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But to me, the most illuminating detail of Biskupic\u2019s biography is her reproduction of an essay by the 13-year-old Roberts seeking admission to an elite all-male Catholic prep school near his home in Indiana.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to stay ahead of the crowd,\u201d Roberts wrote. \u201cI won\u2019t be content to get a good job by getting a good education, I want to get the best job by getting the best education \u2026 I\u2019m sure that by attending and doing my best at La Lumiere I will assure myself of a fine future.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>By the age of 13, most upper-middle-class Baby Boomers had learned the art of asking for social advantage only in terms of human progress. Roberts, refreshingly, eschewed any such cant; instead, he quite unself-consciously explained that the only question that mattered to John G. Roberts was doing the best job possible for the advantage of John G. Roberts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will John Roberts Block the Triumph of Legal Conservatism? But to me, the most illuminating detail of Biskupic\u2019s biography is her reproduction of an essay by the 13-year-old Roberts seeking admission to an elite all-male Catholic prep school near his home in Indiana. \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to stay ahead of the crowd,\u201d Roberts wrote. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-growth-and-navigation","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwinl.com\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}