Astral Codex Ten

John Roberts

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John Roberts

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John Roberts is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 20, 2023 and September 05, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as ""Republicans was John Roberts, who’s moderate and hates change.""; “I would give him John Roberts’ job and he could become Chief Justice Chief Justice”. It most often appears alongside China, Google, Trump.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: February 20, 2023
  • Last seen: September 05, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Grading My 2018 Predictions For 2023
February 20, 2023 · Original source
I count predictions 4, 6, and 10 as having happened, and 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, and 13 as not having happened. I’m resolving 14 as Democrat, 15 as the same. My biggest failure here was 10, where I gave Roe vs. Wade only a 1% chance (!) of being overturned! Looking back, in early 2018 the court was 5-4 Democrat [edit: 5-4 Republican, but one of them was Kennedy who wasn’t going to overturn Roe], and one of the Republicans was John Roberts, who’s moderate and hates change. I was thinking the court would need two new Republicans, which was a lot to ask of a half-over presidential term, and which required Republicans to keep the Senate during the midterms. And even if the two new justices arrived, overturning Roe would be a startling and unusual break with precedent; even if the justices wanted to restrict abortion, I expected them to do something which kept a fig leaf of not having overturned Roe. And even if I was totally wrong, I expected it to take more than five years for all of this to happen. But in fact they got two more Republican justices, they were willing to break with precedent, and they did it fast.
My Presidential Platform
September 05, 2023 · Original source
I would also work with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to see if we could get a tribe to appoint him as an honorary leader, in which case I would give him John Roberts’ job and he could become Chief Justice Chief Justice (or possibly Chief Chief Justice Justice).