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CHIEF UNDER FIRE – Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. is a “disappointment to conservatives,” according to Vice President Mike Pence. Mike Scarcella and Marcia Coyle report that in a new interview Pence assailed Roberts by name, contrasting the Republican-appointed judge with “principled conservatives” the Trump administration has picked for the federal courts. Roberts has faced new criticism from conservatives over the past few weeks after a spate of rulings in which the chief justice aligned with the court’s liberal wing on issues of immigration, gay rights, abortion and virus-era restrictions on public gatherings for worship.
