Chief Justice Roberts, who just administered the oath of office to Biden, has got to be pretty relieved about this moment. He took a couple of very unpopular stands against Trump in narrow Supreme Court rulings and got a lot of flak as a result. The Supreme Court isn’t likely to recede into the background under Biden, of course — we’re likely to see some contentious cases involving Biden executive orders and regulations, for one thing. But with a 6-3 conservative majority on the court, Roberts likely won’t be personally in the spotlight in the same way he was under Trump.
