FILE PHOTO: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts attends a memorial for former House Minority Leader Bob Michel at the Capitol Building in Washington March 9, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts cemented his new role as the Supreme Court's "swing vote," angering people on the political left and right in the process, as he decided the outcomes of major rulings on the census and electoral map manipulation.
Roberts, appointed by Republican President George W. Bush in 2005, sided with his fellow conservative justices in rejecting challenges to a practice called partisan gerrymandering but joined the court's liberals in dealing to a damaging blow to President Donald Trump's plan to add a contentious citizenship question to the 2020 census. Both rulings were 5-4.
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