General Discussion

Chief Justice John Roberts will be remembered the way chief Justice Roger B. Taney is remembered for the Dred Scottt decision, the way Chief Justice Melville Fuller is remembered for Plessy v Ferguson, and the way Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone is remembered for Korematsu v. United States.

In other words, he will be remembered not in his own right as a great or even particularly good Chief Justice, but as the Chief Justice who presided over a court known for disastrous rulings. Only in Roberts" case, he will be known as the Chief Justice who presided over over a court known not for one catastrophic decision but for a whole string of historically bad rulings. One of these, Citizens United v. FEC, is already enshrined in numerous lists of historically bad Supreme Court cases such as this one: https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/supreme-court/13-worst-supreme-court-decisions-of-all-time/

His name is one that will live in infamy as generations of law students study the many terrible rulings rendered by the Roberts Court.