A cartoonish leftist tract masquerades as legal scholarship. The leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts has disappointed many conservatives, especially his strained opinions upholding Obamacare, in NFIB v. Sebelius (2012) and King v. Burwell (2015). Presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R., …

Stephen E. Gottlieb purports to criticize Chief Justice John Roberts’ leadership of the Supreme Court for failing faithfully to interpret the Constitution to protect democracy. What Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics really shows is that Gottlieb, a la…