The Chief Justice’s Wife Has a Right to Her Career: Noah Feldman

Feb. 2, 2023, 1:30 PM UTC

The search for conflicts of interest in the personal lives of the Supreme Court justices has reached a new level of paranoia with the suggestion that Chief Justice John Roberts’s wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, somehow shouldn’t be allowed to do her job as a legal recruiter.

The suggestion seems to have arisen from a letter to Congress from one of Sullivan Roberts’s former colleagues, a man who was fired from the recruiting firm and sued over his dismissal. Rather than dismissing him as a disgruntled ex-employee, the New York Times amplified his concerns and quoted Richard Durbin, the chairman of ...

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