Misha Tseytlin, leader of Troutman Pepper Locke’s Appellate + Supreme Court Practice Group, was quoted in the October 3, 2025 Law360 article, “The Roberts Court at 20: How the Chief Is Reshaping America.”

“This era has been a high-water mark for originalist and conservative jurisprudence,” Troutman Pepper Locke LLP partner Misha Tseytlin, who clerked 15 years ago for now-retired Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, told Law360.

However, Troutman’s Tseytlin cautioned against viewing Justice Roberts as a proponent of unbounded executive power. The president has more leeway to dismiss agency officials, but the Roberts court’s elimination of judicial deference to agencies cuts the other way.

“Certainly, presidential power vis-à-vis agencies has been increased,” Tseytlin said. “But to the extent that the president is wielding the agencies to achieve policy ends the Congress didn’t enact, the power has been taken away from the presidency and given to the courts and Congress.”