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The Supreme Court's Group Hug -- TIME

Interesting article on Roberts' role on creating consensus in the Supreme Court this year. My favorite point, however:

And yet, in his third term, Roberts has achieved what his colleagues had thought was nearly impossible. His success is a reminder of the importance of personality when it comes to leadership on the Supreme Court, in which the quirks and temperaments of individual Justices are as important as judicial philosophy in shaping the law. Roberts told me that he thought much of Marshall's success was due to the fact that his colleagues liked and trusted him. Marshall persuaded the Justices, at the beginning of the 19th century, to live in the same boarding house and discuss cases over glasses of his excellent Madeira. (Once, in an unfortunate burst of temperance, when the Justices voted to drink only when it rained, Marshall looked out the window and noted, "Such is the broad extent of our jurisdiction that by the doctrine of chances it must be raining somewhere.")