Re “How the Chief Justice Shaped Trump’s Supreme Court Winning Streak” (front page, Sept. 15): This article provided interesting, revealing and insidious documentation of Chief Justice John Roberts’s behind-the-scenes strategies to assure continuing victories for former President Donald Trump.

The New York Times offered up a hit on Chief Justice John Roberts, falsely charging him with “deploying his authority to steer rulings that benefited” Donald Trump in “a momentous trio of Jan.

One has to wonder, given how frequently the Supreme Court’s chief justice seems removed from the social and political realities of the country. As revealed by my Times colleagues Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak in their remarkable,

The Times notes that he had originally assigned the opinion to be written by Justice Samuel Alito. But, after the revelation that Alito had flown an American flag upside down to symbolize solidarity with those who had stormed the capital, Robert again sprang into action. He benched Alito and wrote the opinion favoring the insurrectionists himself.