John Roberts, chief justice of the US Supreme Court. (photo: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg) Chief justice's latest trick to ward off oversight ploy of a royal, not a judge Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern / Slate 27 April 23   Last Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin invited Chief Justice John Roberts to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about, well, to put it directly—the Supreme Court's diaphanous ethics regime. On Tuesday evening, in his letter to Durbin in which he declined the invitation , Roberts finally named the problem : 'Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the Chief Justice of the United States is exceedingly rare, as one might expect in light of separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence,' he wrote.

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