JAMI FLOYD:

Right. I do think that he certainly wouldn't have wanted to weigh in during the midterm cycle, so maybe that was on his mind. But he is an institutionalist. He is the chief justice not just of the United States Supreme Court but of the federal judiciary of the courts. And he wants to protect, again not wanting to get inside his psychology but just having read a lot about him and knowing that he very much wants to protect the institution of the courts, he is moving forward to protect his agency in the way so many others have not in the Trump years in the Trump administration and we see an attack not just on judges but on the institutions of justice in this country. And we also saw this bruising battle over Kavanaugh, now Justice Kavanaugh, which frayed the institution of the courts, the Supreme Court and the courts in general and I think Chief Justice Roberts wants to tighten the weave of the fabric of the court at this moment in time, this critical moment in time when the courts are going to need legitimacy to protect our laws and our constitution going forward as we may be heading into a constitutional crisis.