Could Chief Justice Roberts be Shoved Aside?

RedState.com ^ | October 30, 2020 | Dana Pico

[Who is John Galt?]

Justice Clarence Thomas has stated: "When faced with a clash of constitutional principle and a line of unreasoned cases wholly divorced from the text, history, and structure of our founding document, we should not hesitate to resolve the tension in favor of the Constitution's original meaning." Such an approach could have powerful and positive consequences for any 2nd Amendment cases that reach the high court, particularly if Justice Thomas is in a position to write or assign the majority opinion.

(I've always thought that the biggest mistake of Dubya's presidency was his failure to nominate Clarence Thomas to be Chief Justice! ;>)

[Fido969]

We need to find out who has what on Roberts, and expose it.

[Howie66]

Take him for a ride in a Blackhawk.

[Terry L Smith]

I find it distasteful that the article author alluded to the ‘conservative’ Supreme Court justices as a “cabal”!!

But, then again, with “this wrong woman” now part of the SCOTUS team, I might have expected it.

[GOP Poet]

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[carikadon]

And also Kavanaugh it appears.

[AndyJackson]

We know what we have on Roberts. He is the cleverest little shit from his Harvard class. What he lacks in wisdom and perspective he makes up for in ‘it’s a tax” smart-assedness, the defining phrase in his entire sad traitorous career.

[Sacajaweau]

Stop with the BS....

[lee martell]

I like the concept, but
I strongly suspect that
Judge Thomas would like to retire soon, and is holding out for the duration of Trump’s first term only.
It may be time to make Supreme Court appointments not for a lifetime, but for perhaps 25 years.

[Mr. Mojo]

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3856844/posts

[AnotherUnixGeek]

We need to find out who has what on Roberts, and expose it.

No one has anything on him. This is just who he is, and who Bush nominated.

[alloysteel]

COULD the Chief Justice be shouldered aside? What makes you think he has not ALREADY been reduced to irrelevance?

Donald J. Trump plays an amazing game of 3-D and even 4-D chess, with moves so arcane that even years from now, the full importance will still be getting revealed.

[Navy Patriot]

We need to find out who has what on Roberts, and expose it.

Yep, we need to use it to "motivate" him to become more conservative.

[Who is John Galt?]

...I strongly suspect that Judge Thomas would like to retire soon, and is holding out for the duration of Trump’s first term only.

Justice Thomas is a great man, and a great American, and I would certainly wish him well if he retires. But he would be sorely missed - having him on the high court is about as close as we can get, to having one of the Founding Fathers/Framers of the Constitution seated there. Read his opinions; he writes like James Madison...

[Polynikes]

You won't expose anything. There were “hold ups” in the adoption of his 2 children that mysteriously cleared up. He then voted for Obamacare. If they are exposed his children get deported.

He recently in July struck his head while walking. That required a brief hospitalization

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/07/chief-justice-john-roberts-suffered-fall-and-hospitalized-june/5395889002/

Sounds like someone did a partial “Harry Reid”. Roberts has a history of seizures so there is plausible deniability.

[Eva]

I am counting on ACB to shame Roberts into being more of an originalist. Her cold dry logic is irrefutable. I already sell challenge his legislating from the bench.

[pierrem15]

It could have even more impact if it were applied to the Commerce Clause, you know, restricting jurisdiction of Federal commercial regulation to actual interstate commerce as it used to be before the New Deal.

[MinorityRepublican]

There’s a possibility that John Roberts may be more conservative IF Kavanaugh or Gorsuch do not defect.

[carikadon]

Kananaugh has already defected and Trump was pretty upset.

[Eddie01]

Could? Has.