I seem to remember during the Senate confirmation hearings for Justice Roberts there was speculation that there was something illegal about the adoption of his two children.
I’m beginning to think the whole damn country’s been taken over and the powers that be in the branches of government are unable to stop it.
I doubt if he was bribed. Blackmailed, possibily. He’d be screwed - he wouldn’t be able to go to the FBI, because Holder would have been in on it!
Maybe is Obama loses the election, Roberts will be able to get the FBI involved.
Also Ginsburg gave an interview a few days before the decision was announced and she looked like the cat that swallowed the proverbial canary. She promised some unusual result.
He knew exactly what he was doing.
Kagan leaked the results beforehand to the WH, IMO.
What most people are not picking up on is this from the dissent:
““Finally, we must observe that rewriting §5000A as a tax in order to sustain its constitutionality would force us to confront a difficult constitutional question: whether this is a direct tax that must be apportioned among the States according to their population. Art. I, §9, cl. 4. Perhaps it is not (we have no need to address the point); but the meaning of the Direct Tax Clause is famously unclear, and its application here is a question of first impression that deserves more thoughtful consideration.””
It means that Roberts changed his vote at the last minute. A very unusual occurrence.
Something happened.
I wonder if somebody, somewhere has a pic of Roberts with another woman or a young boy as one other Freeper put it (can’t remember who)
Nobody can convince me that Barry and the ‘RATS didn’t know the decision a week ago. Barry and the ‘RATS knew all along how this was going to go and that it would be Roberts who was going to stick it to America.
Nothing that exotic. He just was afraid of all those nasty op-eds in the NY Times and Washington Post which were going to accuse him of single-handedly destroying the crowning achievement of America’s First Black President.
The guy religiously reads and internalizes all of his press clippings apparently.
I don’t care either way, he had the power to stop this CHIT! FREAKIN COWARD!! ROBERTS you are a miserable COWARD!!
There were some interesting trades on Wall Street leading up to this decision. Health care industry. Just sayin’...
Bank on it.
“They” owned him since the multiple swearing ins. Something happened behind those closed doors. The adoption of his kids may or may not have anything to do with it. Yesterday was when he had to pay the ransom. He just killed the SCOTUS. It’s dead. Congress has proven they have no dignity and will vote with their wallets and now SCOTUS is just as disgusting. The bells are tolling for this once great country.
I don’t believe he was blackmailed or bribed.
The dems didn’t want him and if there was something sufficiently weird about his adoption of children, they would have brought it up during his confirmation hearing.
Look at the dance they went through to find Anita Hill and try to block Justice Thomas with that extremely feeble case against him.
Roberts may have undergone a black robe change or he may have some convoluted reason for the weird decision.
But please, people, stop saying we are doomed.
We are not doomed. We just need a change in administration.
We need to put aside our petty resentments and support Romney with all our hearts.
We need to elect more conservatives to the House and get a majority in the Senate.
All will be well.
Entitlements are extremely hard to get rid of, but remember this stuff isn’t set to go into effect until 2014. By then, we can get rid of it if we don’t sit around moaning.
Chicago thugs use threats of bodily harm against a man or his family to get their way.
Obama threatened the Court publically twice. Soros had no trouble threatening Glenn Beck.
Obama is NOT above threatening Roberts or his family with harm. It would not surprize me in the slightest.
I don’t think that Roberts was either bought or bribed. I think that Roberts was convinced by some leftist that it would have been racist to overturn the signature legislation of the Obama administration.
I think that Roberts somehow was convinced that race neutrality is, in fact, racist, that government has the power because there is no such thing as God given rights and that the government therefore has the right (both the ability and the moral correctness) and the power to redistribute wealth and health care under the power to tax.
Roberts claimed to have decided this issue on the basis of the law, but that is not true.
Cardinal Richelieu and many of the popes took secrets with them to their graves and beyond (if there was a beyond at the time.)
What a weak man. The country is run by them.
Injustice Roberts walks in to rob a bank and yells, “GIVE ME YOUR MONEY! THIS IS NOT A STICKUP, THIS IS A TAX!”
Decisions should be announced as soon as the vote is taken, so there is no time for shenanigans.