Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as 'political actors'

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9. As a retired empiricist, I suggest Roberts take an intro course in examining data.

He can start with a very simple instance -- that we are almost perfectly able to predict how the Republican appointees will vote on most cases. If one can predict, one understands reality. If instead what he said were true, there would be few 6-3 cases and more 9-0 cases, and there would be a mix of justices on each side of cases that have at least several minority votes.