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参见TIME, Feb.15, 2007, Vol.167, No.9, http://205.188.238.109/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1590461,00.html。
例如Geoffrey Stone的文章便在网上引起热烈讨论，可参见作者不同名网文“Chief Justice Roberts and the Role of the Supreme Court”以及相关讨论，http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2007/02/chief_justice_r.html；比较不错的博客文章，可参见Jacco Bomhoff，Defending and Challenging ‘Minimalism’ Empirically，February 08, 2007，http://www.comparativelawblog.blogspot.com/ 。
参见REYNOLDS HOLDING，In Defense of Dissents。
参见Geoffrey Stone，A Narrow View of the Law。
参见REYNOLDS HOLDING，In Defense of Dissents。
参见Bill Barnhart，ROBERTS STRIVES FOR CONSENSUS ON COURT： In recent years, many major cases have been decided 5-4, with conservatives winning some and liberals winning others. Even when justices agree on an outcome of a case, opinions frequently are amended by concurring statements.
In his first term as chief, Roberts saw the number of dissents from opinions of the court eased slightly--to 60 dissents in 2005-06 from 63 in the 2004-05 term. In the 2005-06 term, two justices on the court''s liberal wing, John Paul Stevens and Stephen Breyer, were the most frequent dissenters.
罗伯茨的原话：“I remain convinced that the court benefits most from the distinctive voices of its members when the court meets in conference to discuss the disposition of a case and the conference takes the advantage of those views in shaping an opinion for the court”；“that the court could rule authoritatively and win the public''s confidence only if it functioned as a collegial body and not simply as a collection of individuals"；Those innovations "were essential in making the court more than simply the sum of its membership,""Without that unity, I doubt that the court could have attained the stature it enjoys as the authoritative institution for interpreting federal law."参见Bill Barnhart，ROBERTS STRIVES FOR CONSENSUS ON COURT。
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