The Supreme Court justice most responsible for delivering Democratic victories also happens to be the richest Supreme Court justice.
To be fair, Chief Justice John Roberts was already wealthy when he joined the high court, according to an exclusive investigation by Forbes magazine. However, his wealth has quadrupled since then.
He is now worth $25 million, which is more than any other justice, and more than twice the net worth of President Joe Biden.
But how did he get so much wealth?
How John Roberts Became the Richest Justice on the Supreme Court https://t.co/gs7TQOJYAB pic.twitter.com/VLTejhX1v1
— Forbes (@Forbes) December 19, 2023
“First, Roberts and his wife Jane saved a pile of money after years in private practice. Then, with more than $3 million by the time he was 46, Roberts took a low-paying but still fulfilling job as federal judge while his wife continued to make a lot of money,” according to Forbes.
“He rose to chief justice in 2005 and stayed on the stock market, allowing his nest egg to inflate as the economy boomed. Today, John and Jane Roberts are worth about $20 million in liquid assets, plus several homes and a multimillion-dollar pension awaiting the chief justice when he retires,” notes Forbes.
The Forbes piece goes on to note that he was born in New York, grew up in Indiana and applied to La Lumiere School, a Catholic boarding and college preparatory school. In his admission essay, he wrote, “I want to get the best job by getting the best education.”
“After graduating from La Lumiere, he stayed true to that same philosophy, enrolling at Harvard. He studied history and planned to become a professor, graduating in just three years near the top of his class in 1976,” Forbes notes.
However, difficulties in finding work led him to Harvard Law School, after which he eventually secured a fellowship with then-future Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
He later worked in the Reagan administration's Department of Justice and the White House Counsel's Office until 1986, after which he entered the private sector.
“He entered private practice in 1986, working in appellate law at Hogan and Hartson, a DC firm where he became a partner in 1987. He then returned to government during the George HW Bush administration to serving in the attorney general's office under Ken Starr. , where he briefly overlapped with Brett Kavanaugh, his future Supreme Court colleague,” notes Forbes.
“In 1992, Bush nominated Roberts, then 37, to a circuit court position. But when the president lost to Bill Clinton that year, Roberts' nomination lapsed and he returned to private practice. By the early 2000s, Roberts had argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of both the government and private clients and was earning more than $700,000 a year,” according to Forbes.
This, of course, is the official story of how he got rich. Critics, especially conservatives, have their own suspicions and theories:
He sold America down the river…
— Paul Gargiulo (@goose3960) December 21, 2023
Paid for deep state. He went to Epstein's Island.
— X_Fakenewswatcher (@X_FakeNewsWatch) December 19, 2023
His wife teaches lawyers how to appear before the SC…they are corrupt.
— LynnDoe (@LynnDoe4X) December 21, 2023
That's an easy question to answer…he's a Democratic progressive.
— Dominick Curreri (@DominickCurrer6) December 20, 2023
— Gryffinclaw (@gryffinclaw3) December 19, 2023
This cynicism and anger likely stems from the fact that Roberts is responsible for a large number of Democratic victories, including Obamacare. Remember that in 2012, Roberts saved Obamacare. Three years later, he did it again, causing massive outrage from what appeared to be his team.
“Roberts' decision to side with the Obama administration for a second time on the high-profile health care law threw plenty of fuel into a long-running debate over whether Republicans misjudged the judge chief when he was appointed a decade ago or whether he has moderated in his years on the court,” Politician informed in due course.
To make matters worse, the Obamacare decision came just weeks after Roberts again sided with the left by “supporting restrictions on judicial campaign fundraising,” according to Politico.
And earlier in the term, he also “joined frequent swing Justice Anthony Kennedy and the court's Democratic appointees in a 6-3 pregnancy discrimination decision that took a decidedly moderate stance, disappointing both businesses and to the defenders of women”.
Of course, these other decisions weren't as impactful as Obamacare.
But those decisions paled in comparison to the momentous victory Roberts helped deliver to the Obama White House on Thursday.
“This claims Roberts is something very different from what conservatives and probably even liberals thought they were getting,” Curt Levey of the Committee on the Judiciary said at the time.
“I would expect people to be bitterly disappointed with Roberts … You can try to explain it once – people tried to explain it by saying he was intimidated … but it's hard to see it happen twice,” he added .
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V. Saxena is a writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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