I guess
Politico can't help being political, but this article seems to me to be a bit over the top:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/25/chief-john-roberts-court-00039237Some experts believe the differences the court’s Republican appointees have with Roberts will soon be papered over as the conservative majority focuses on pressing its agenda in other areas like affirmative action and reining in the power of the regulatory state, issues where Roberts tends to be more aligned with his conservative colleagues.
Really? "Pressing its agenda"? Regardless of which side you're on in the abortion debate, the fact is that
Roe v. Wade was a bad decision. It created a "right" that the Constitution did not recognize or contemplate, and ran roughshod over the bedrock constitutional principle that the rights not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states or to the people. But, according to
Politico reaffirming the Constitution is now "pressing [an] agenda.
IMHO, Roberts lost control of the court because Roberts forgot that he was nominated as Chief Justice because he was supposed to be a conservative. Of all members of the Supreme Court, the chief justice should be the one who holds out the most to adhere to the Constitution, irrespective of what the media and various outside factions want to see the law twisted into.